This site contains articles on Woking’s History and Heritage by Iain Wakeford and the archive of historic documents that were originally featured on the  website www.heritagewalks.org.

The programme for the 2025 Heritage Walks is here.

Also here are posters for the walks Ripley in March 2025, Worplesdon in June 2025, Chobham in September 2025, and Ottershaw in December 2025 (please print them out if you have somewhere that you can display them).

All Heritage Walks are free and open for anyone to attend. There is no membership, no booking, just turn-up and walk. They are all circular (bringing you back to where you started), and last up to two hours. There will be frequent stops on the walk to look at features of historic interest (and hear about their heritage), so the walks are more like gentle strolls, rather than rambles. Everyone who joins the walks, does so at their own risk.

NEW FEATURE - Woking's Pictorial Past

In an attempt to publish as much as possible on this site of my archive, I have now created some files showing some of my photographs and postcards of the area. 

This new section is divided into two, showing Woking in the pre-Second War War period, and then post-war Woking. 

For those interested in purchasing some of my books and booklets (as well as other second-hand copies of local history books of Surrey*) I will have a sales table at the West Surrey Family History Fair at Woking Leisure Centre on Saturday 16th November 2024 - with any profits from the stall going towards funding this website and my research.

*The stall will also include sales of books and ephemera for the whole of the British Isles, only some of which is currently on sale on E-bay via my 'heritagewalks.org' account (the sales of which again help to fund this site and my research)