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St John's, Woking

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80: 535: 52: 87: 64: 424:(completed in 1794), providing boat navigation and a quieter alternative for pedestrians and cyclists to access to the town centre than its various suburban streets. St Johns formed towards the end of Goldsworth Road leading from what was becoming gradually a town centre. It dates largely from the 19th century, when housing first began to be constructed to accommodate workers employed at the local brickworks. 270: 678:
At the last census in 2011, the proportion of households in St Johns and Hook Heath who owned their home outright was 8.2% above the borough average. The proportion who owned their home with a loan was 0.5% greater than borough average. The borough figures were in turn slightly greater than the
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Today the village is home to a mixture of shops and businesses which include a pharmacy, a small supermarket, restaurants, and office premises. The village pub the Rowbarge, built in the 1700’s for workers during the canal construction still serves the village and visitors alike.
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Gorse Hill is today an air-conditioned Edwardian mansion, at the end of Mile Path, by the Golf Course, a partial residential road, partial driveway, offering residential management training and meeting and conference facilities here run by the De Vere Venues group.
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of Woking's town centre in the northwest of the English county – by including such suburbs, Woking is the largest town in the county. The ward in 2011 contained 1,888 homes across its 3.46 square kilometres (1.34 sq mi).
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being the borderline and one road and a footpath connects the two villages. Hook Heath has two roads connecting it to the almost equally elevated district of Woking known as Mount Hermon, passing over and under the
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Woking Golf Club with woodland, heath and 18 holes of golf, occupies much of the west of Hook Heath and has large lakeside pavilion golf club restaurant. The clubhouse venue has bar and shop facilities.
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cottage with much of its original core intact. In the ward as a whole no other buildings from the two centuries after this exist. No church is in the suburb of Hook Heath. Clay in the east rises into
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most wards of the borough are small and deemed appropriate to be represented under the current constitution of councillors by one or two councillors, as is the case for St John's and Hook Heath.
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Scout, guides, a residents' association providing voluntary work, the Women's Institute, a floral art group and the 'Churchill Tennis Club' operate in St Johns.
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The sole church, mentioned in history, is an active religious group and the dedication of the building gives rise to the name of the settlement.
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is a notable member of the Village Hall facilities provision group for St John's Memorial Hall which is in the centre of the village.
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which is a part-developed, part-golf course sub-locality of the neighbourhood. In 1911 also living in the rural hamlet were
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of garden nurseries and agricultural fields. The borough council groups voluntary and leisure organisations into a
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national average. The figures showed overall a lower proportion than average of rented residential property and of
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Hook Heath has a residents' association providing seasonal voluntary work in and with the community.
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These are styles which have been imitated across the settlement which slopes up to Fisher's Hill – a
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Two large Edwardian homes in tall, ornate architecture in the most rural part of the village are:
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and has a number of streets named after it as well as all the commerce apart from the golf club.
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in Surrey consisting of two settlements founded in the 19th century in the medieval parish of
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in St Johns and Hook Heath than either of the two averages however close to the average in
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Thick woodland is mixed with open meadow at St Johns Lye, between St Johns and Hook Heath
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Mount Hermon, St. Johns, Hook Heath, Mayford and Sutton Green Neighbourhood
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Window on Woking linked to as charity-run main communities noticeboard
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A county secondary school is 500m west of St Johns western border,
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The village has in common with St Johns one half of the local
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Mount Hermon, St. Johns, Hook Heath, Mayford and Sutton Green
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Hook Heath adjoins the large St Johns Lye open space, the
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Neighbouring suburbs or villages of both villages are
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Household size, population and tenure key statistics
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Gorse Hill, Hook Hill, a listed building at Grade II
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Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density
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St. John's, Surrey


St Johns and Hook Heath occupies much of the mid-western suburban or urbanised three-quarters of the borough, north of the South West Main Line and between the A3 and M3 trunk road routes
Surrey
Density
OS grid reference
SU9855
District
Woking
Shire county
Surrey
Region
South East
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Woking
Postcode district
GU21
Dialling code
Police
Surrey
Fire
Surrey
Ambulance
South East Coast
UK Parliament
Woking

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