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Woking means"(settlement belonging to the) followers of Wocc (or 'Wocca')".[1] Over time, the name has been written variously as, for example, Wochingas, and Wokynge.

  1. ^ Ekwall, E., The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names, 4th edn., Oxford University Press, 1960, p. 529.

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