St. Johns is a locality within the town of Woking in Surrey, a region that dates back to the Domesday Book and has a long history of human activity. The area is part of a town that developed around the railway station in the mid‑19th century and has been influenced by historic transport links such as the Wey Navigation, Basingstoke Canal and the London to Southampton railway line.
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St. Johns sits within the borough of Woking, a town and borough in north‑west Surrey, England. Woking has a documented history that stretches back to the Domesday Book, where it was recorded as Wochinges, and its name is believed to derive from a Saxon landowner. Archaeological evidence indicates human activity in the area as far back as the Palaeolithic, though the sandy soils meant it was the least populated part of the county in 1086. Between the mid‑17th and mid‑19th centuries, new transport links were constructed, including the Wey Navigation, Basingstoke Canal and the London to Southampton railway line. The modern town of Woking was established in the mid‑1860s when the London Necropolis Company began selling surplus land surrounding the railway station for development. The locality of St. Johns is therefore part of a town that grew around a railway hub and has a long historical backdrop of early settlement and transport development.