Crossword clues for woking
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of wok English)
Wikipedia
Woking is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It was created in 1950 from the county constituency of Chertsey. Woking has historically been a Conservative safe seat, with the Liberal Democrats being the principal opposition in the last five general elections, up until 2015 when Labour overtook them. Its current Member of Parliament is Jonathan Lord.
Woking is a large town and civil parish that shares its name with the surrounding local government district, located in the west of Surrey, England. It is at the southwestern edge of the Greater London Urban Area and is a part of the London commuter belt, with frequent trains and a journey time of approximately 24 minutes to Waterloo station. Woking is southwest of Charing Cross in central London. Woking town itself, excluding the surrounding district, has a population of 62,796, with the whole local government district ( the borough of Woking) having a population of 99,500 (mid-2011 estimate). Woking has been a Conservative area since the constituency was created in 1950, with Jonathan Lord elected as its Member of Parliament in the 2010 General Election.
Woking is a large town in Surrey.
Woking may also refer to:
- Woking F.C., a football club from Woking, Surrey
- Woking railway station, a railway station serving Woking, Surrey
- Woking (UK Parliament constituency), a constituency represented in the House of Commons
- Woking (borough), a borough in Surrey
- Woking (hundred), a hundred in what is now Surrey
- History of Woking, about Woking's history
- Old Woking, a former village now considered part of the town of Woking, Surrey
- Woking Palace, a former manor house of the Royal Manor of Woking
- Woking College, a Sixth Form College situated in Woking, Surrey
- Woking Park, a sports and leisure complex in Woking, Surrey
- Woking High School, a high school in Woking, Surrey
- Woking Hockey Club, a hockey club in Woking, Surrey
- Woking, Alberta, a small hamlet in Alberta, Canada
Usage examples of "woking".
Woking had died of anaphylactic shock on a Syndicate base that Fleet HQ swore the Headhunters had never seen.
The majority of the inhabitants had escaped, I suppose, by way of the Old Woking road -- the road I had taken when I drove to Leatherhead or they had hidden.
Wells's wife has cousins at Leatherhead, and they, listening gravely and with obvious skepticism to our wild tales of Martians with heat-rays laying waste to Woking, gave us supper and evidently expected that we would be guests for the night, it now being nearly ten.
If on Friday night you had taken a pair of compasses and drawn a circle with a radius of five miles round the Woking sand pits, I doubt if you would have had one human being outside it, unless it were some relation of Stent or of the three or four cyclists or London people lying dead on the common, whose emotions or habits were at all affected by the new-comers.