Woking Reviews

Woking is located in Surrey, South East England. It is a large commuter town and London is a 28 minute train journey away. As Woking is the first stop on various train lines, trains run very regularly upto London at peak hour (about every 8 minutes). Woking has two big claims to fame. The first is that HG Wells ...  Read the complete review

If you have never read, and loved, "The War of the Worlds", then this review may be a bit pointless. Just a warning. I first had a Wellsian pilgrimage to Woking in 2005, arriving by rail from Waterloo on a late Sunday evening. The train journey down runs through the heart of the Home Counties, passing the bulk of Battersea ...  Read the complete review

When I first left the station at Woking and started walking through the town centre, I was fairly underwhelmed. 'Underwhelmed' soon become 'dispirited' - which soon became 'depressed.' This was the location of my new job, and it sucked. Woking is a town of less architectural merit than I've ever seen in this ...  Read the complete review

It's hard to be optimistic about the town you live in but I'll try... Woking is OK really. We've just finished building a brand new hotel in the town centre which seems to be the highlight of all the local newspapers. There are two large shopping centres, The Peacocks and Wolsey Place. Boasting all the highstreet names - Marks ...  Read the complete review

Woking is not really famous. There is nothing that its really known for, inless you know about Formula 1 in which Mclaren is based there but thats it. The Shopping centre is called 'The Peacocks' and has all the famous shops there and there is something for everyone. TK Max on the bottom floor sell designer clothes are discount ...  Read the complete review

With Britain's oldest crematoria and what was once the largest cemetary in Europe, Woking has been christened the dead center of England. H G Wells once lived in Woking and disliked it so much he made sure it was the first place destroyed by the Martians in the War of the Worlds. He had the landlord of his local pub killed off in a ...  Read the complete review

Woking, which is situated near Guildford in Surrey is a medium sized town with all the usual facilities and amenities, including two shopping centres. Woking has quite a history to it, it has the oldest crematorium in Europe and Britain's oldest mosque and was also the area in which HG Well's came up with his concept for "The War of ...  Read the complete review