Woking Hundred

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The Hundred of Woking in Surrey
The Great Barn, Wanborough lay within the Woking Hundred

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]

References

Hundreds of Surrey

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