Did You Know?
- Horsell Common was the scene for H.G.Well's depiction of the Martian invasion of Earth, in War of the Worlds.
- Also found on Horsell Common are two fine Bronze Age (2500 – 700) bell barrows. John Aubrey, the antiquarian, visited the site in 1718 and commented: "On the heath in this Parish are two round Hills or Barrows, supposed to have been the Burial-Place for Men slain in Battles."
- Woking is also home to the first mosque in the country, the Shah jehan mosque, built in 1889.
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