Talk:Dorking

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I removed the Directions - I don't recall any other article having road and rail directions?

Djnjwd 02:00, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC)

what happened to the information on dorking's communter town status? and the disaffected youth?

i have lived in dorking all my life, and have studied sociology in the area, so i dont see why someone has deleted my info, and i would like some kind of justification for this deletion.

The website stuff dorking, is non-notable and non-credible. On further investigation it is a small forum frequented by 5-10 people who posted their link here as a form of advertising. Now as this is not a credible dorking website I am going to remove it again.

  • Agreed, just looks like an advert and should be removed. --86.11.112.240 16:16, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I surfed on in to this page as part of my musical duties on Wikipedia to add the Emma Holland link and I was amazed to see that the second most boring town in West Surrey has such an elaborately gushing page. A1octopus 23:35, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I have to take issue with the statement:

'With its many shops Dorking is a booming town'. It clearly is not. The shop turnover is immense and there has not been a single time in its history that all the plots in St. Martins' Walk has been filled. This looks like a piece of advertising, not an encyclopaedic entry. If someone can find justification for this, maybe from the Dorking Chamber of Commerce, then it should be cited as a reference, otherwise it should be deleted. Robruss24 13:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

This document (about the status of Crawley as a retail destination) has a bit of info about Dorking as a retail destination. According to the "UK Shopping venue Rankings 2005", it is apparently in 445th place. Also, it is not considered to be either a Primary Regional Centre (such as Brighton or Crawley) or a Secondary Regional Centre (such as Haywards Heath or Horsham). So statistically, it is a relatively small player in the local retail market. Hassocks5489 14:00, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

I slightly altered the wording in the modern era section.Robruss24 15:20, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possible rewrite?

This would benefit from a rewrite in a more neutral tone, preferably with citations for some of the comments. I'll try to do something in the next couple of days or so.

http://worldroots.com/brigitte/famous/j/johnhowarddesc5.htm indicates that it's the 10th Duke of Norfolk who is buried in Dorking; I have drawn a blank on which churchyard though ... can any locals help?

I'll do the Dorking Deepdene and Dorking West station entries as well - that was what I was originally concerned with ...!

--Hassocks5489 12:14, 11 August 2006 (UTC) (Occasional Dorking visitor)

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