Woking (hundred)

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See Woking for the town or Woking (borough) for the district.
Woking is in the centre of the Surrey hundreds
Woking is in the centre of the Surrey hundreds
The Great Barn, Wanborough lay within the Woking hundred
The Great Barn, Wanborough lay within the Woking hundred

Woking was a hundred in what is now Surrey, England. It includes the town of Woking and the borough of Woking.

The hundred includes the parishs of Ash, East Clandon, West Clandon, East Horsley, West Horsley, Merrow, Ockham, Pirbright, Send and Ripley, Stoke Juxta Guildford, Wanborough, Windlesham, Wisley, Woking and Worplesdon.[1]

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.

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  1. ^ British History online
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