Woking
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 functions
as a dormitory town of the London commuter belt and
is located 23 miles (37 km) south west of Charing Cross
in central London. Woking town itself, excluding the
surrounding district, has a population of 62,796,and
the civil parish, which covers part of the urban area
inclusive of Sheerwater and Knaphill, has a population
of 30,403. It should be noted that this population should
not be confused with the local government district (the
borough of Woking), which has an approximate population
of 90,700 (2006 estimate). Woking also plays a role
in literature: it is the town in which the Martians
landed in H. G. Wells science fiction novel The War
of the Worlds. It also features in Douglas Adams's The
Meaning of Liff, as the word for when you go to the
kitchen but forget why.
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