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Pool in the Park flumes [needs update]Pool in the Park is a purpose-built swimming complex in the middle of the park. It has three pools, the competition pool that is one to three metres deep, 25m long and 13m wide, with up to 6 swim lanes, which opened in 1989; a teaching pool 16 metres long x 8 metres and 0.8m - 1.0m depth and the leisure lagoon which includes three Water Slides which vary ...
The first stage opened in May 1838 and joined the London Terminus in Nine Elms with Woking Common, now Woking. [3] Byfleet and New Haw Station is in close proximity to the historical Brooklands racetrack and aerodrome, which date back to 1907. [4] [5] The racetrack hosted the 1927 British Grand Prix a few months after the station opened. [6]
Woking's listed signal box [2]. The London and Southampton Railway (L&SR) was authorised on 25 July 1834 [3] [note 1] and construction began in October of that year. [5] The line was built in stages, and the first section, between the London terminus at Nine Elms and "Woking Common", was opened to passengers on 21 May 1838.
Old Woking is a ward and the original settlement of the town and borough of Woking, Surrey, about 1.3 miles (2.1 km) southeast of the modern town centre.It is bounded by the Hoe Stream to the north and the River Wey to the south and between Kingfield to the west and farmland to the east.
Kingfield Stadium, currently known as The Laithwaite Community Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in the Kingfield area of Woking, Surrey, and is the home of Woking Football Club which has a capacity of approximately 6,000, of which 2,500 are seated on grandstands.
Woking Hockey Club, Goldsworth Park. Woking Hockey Club was founded in 1904. It is based at Goldsworth Park, and its facilities include two AstroTurf pitches. [335] The Hockey Museum opened in Butts Road in 2012 [336] and moved to its current premises in the High Street in December 2017. [337] [338]
Horsell Common is a 355-hectare (880-acre) open space in Horsell, near Woking in Surrey.It is owned and managed by the Horsell Common Preservation Society. [2] An area of 152 hectares (380 acres) is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest [1] [3] and part of the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area.
Lying on the main road from London to Portsmouth (from the 1930s referred to as the A3), Ripley was the post town for the whole area (including Woking) from 1813 to 1865. With the coming of the railway to what was then Woking Common in 1838, Ripley's importance diminished, and Woking became its post town in 1865.