Moving to Woking | Removals from Woking
Woking means (settlement belonging to the followers of Wocc or 'Wocca'). Over time, the name has been written variously as, for example, Wochingas, and Wokynge. Woking appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wochinges. Its description there is complex since it was then held as three estates by King William the Conqueror, Walter FitzOther constable of Windsor Castle, and Ansgot and Godfrey from Osbern FitzOsbern the then Bishop of Exeter.
A building was first recorded on the site of Woking in 1272. In 1466 Lady Margaret Beaufort the mother of King Henry VII and the grandmother of King Henry VIII, and her third husband Henry Stafford the 2nd Duke of Buckingham obtained by royal grant the former Beaufort manor of Woking.
They lived in the manor house at least until Henry Stafford's death in 1471. The modern Beaufort School in Goldsworth Park is named after Lady Margaret. Henry VII took the manor from his mother and began the process of converting the manor house into a palace. His son Henry VIII continued this process when he succeeded his father in 1509; the palace became a favourite residence of the king.
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