Woking is the other large town in Surrey apart from Guildford. Built around its large train station, it grew up in the Victorian era, but experienced a boom in the post war period when modern buildings, car parks and large retail outlets were constructed in the town centre.
In the original version of HG Wells' War of the Worlds, not the recent Hollywood movie, the woodland area north east of the town known as the 'Sandpits' due to the presence of beach-like areas of golden sands on Horsell Common was the location for the aliens' attacks on Earth!
