HERITAGE WALKS with Iain Wakeford
Thursday Evenings starting at 7pm - The Ruins of Woking Palace - meet
opposite the Post Office, Old Woking
Every week from the beginning of May until the end of August
Sunday Afternoon walks starting at 2pm
Each walk is a short circular walk with plenty of stops to look at places of
interest and hear about the areas heritage. It should be noted that all the
walks are free, although a hat is passed around at the end to help cover
costs of publicity etc.
Publications
Heritage Walk publications currently available (or in preparation).
HERITAGE WALKS GUIDE TO...
THE PREHISTORY OF THE BOROUGH OF WOKING.
THE PLACE NAMES OF THE BOROUGH OF WOKING.
THE EARLY MEDIEVAL HISTORY OF THE MANOR OF WOKING.
THE TUDOR BUILDINGS OF WOKING PALACE.
WOKING PALACE IN TUDOR TIMES.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MANOR OF BYFLEET.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF NEWARK PRIORY.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF SUTTON PLACE.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WEY NAVIGATION.
THE COMING OF THE RAILWAY - THE 1830s & ‘40s.
‘THE MAD’, ‘THE BAD’ & ‘THE SAD’ - A BRIEF GUIDE TO THE INSTITUTIONS OF WEST WOKING.
FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM WOKING’S PAST.
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS CYCLE TOUR.
All are 20+ page (illustrated) ‘A5’ booklets with detailed notes on the text and a list of further reading.
Each booklet is sold at £2.00 plus P&P.
WEY VALLEY WALKS GUIDES.
(Based on the 1999 series of Heritage Walks along the Wey Valley).
Two sets of six eight-page (illustrated) ‘A5’ booklets with notes on items of historic interest on the area and a simple map to show the route taken. Set one includes notes on walks around ‘Byfleet, Pyrford and Ripley’, whilst set two looks at ‘Old Woking, Send and Sutton Green’. Both sets are sold at £2.50 plus P&P.
HERITAGE NOTES.
Guides currently available to the following areas.
OLD WOKING (TOWN END),
OLD WOKING (SHACKLEFORD),
KINGFIELD,
WESTFIELD,
SUTTON GREEN,
MAYFORD,
PIRBRIGHT,
BROOKWOOD,
KNAPHILL,
ST JOHNS,
HOOK HEATH & STAR HILL,
GOLDSWORTH & GOLDSWORTH PARK,
HORSELL (BIRCH),
HORSELL (VILLAGE),
HORSELL (COMMON),
WOKING TOWN CONSERVATION AREA,
MAYBURY HILL,
PYRFORD,
WEST BYFLEET,
BYFLEET
(All sixteen-page (illustrated) ‘A5’ booklets with notes on items of historic interest. Each booklet is sold at £1.50 plus P&P.
Also available - CHANGING WOKING 1900-1929 by the Woking Community Play Association (£6.00 plus P&P). 96 page soft-back book, with a year by year look at the history of Woking - with special features on aspects of the period (such as Brooklands Racing Track, Suffragettes, and The First World War etc) newspaper cuttings and over 100 old photographs, maps and old advertisements from the period.
Please send cheques or postal orders made payable to G.K. Wakeford to…
Heritage Walks, 166 High Street, Old Woking, GU22 9JH.
Woking: 01483 773773