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[[File:wanborough barn2 20060909.jpg|thumb|225px|The Great Barn, [[Wanborough, Surrey|Wanborough]] lay within the Woking Hundred]]
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'''Woking''' is a hundred of [[Surrey]]. It includes the town of [[Woking]] and the surrounding parishes.
 
'''Woking''' is a hundred of [[Surrey]]. It includes the town of [[Woking]] and the surrounding parishes.
  

Revision as of 09:30, 21 February 2018

The Hundred of Woking in Surrey
The Great Barn, Wanborough

Woking is a hundred of Surrey. It includes the town of Woking and the surrounding parishes.

The Hundred comprises the ancient parishes of:

Minor clerical errors and convenience groupings of other parishes have occurred in some mediæval centrally held records at Lambeth and Westminster Palaces for example.[2]

In the time of Edward the Confessor, the Hundred was worth £88; by the Domesday Book of 1086 it was worth £125. By 1696, it was worth £297 for taxation purposes.[2]

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Hundreds of Surrey

Blackheath • Brixton • Copthorne • Effingham (half) • Elmbridge • Farnham • Godalming • Godley • Kingston • Reigate • Tandridge • Wallington • Woking • Wotton