Woking S.Johns

Barrack Path

Small cheap villas from the 1880s

Copse Road

Small cheap villas from the 1880s

Robin Hood Road

Brickworks.  There until the Second World War and they closed in 1942,

Woking Convict Prison.  Land was sold to the Home Office in 1858 by the Necropolis Company and consisted of 65 acres of Knaphill Common.  The prison was designed by Arthur Blomfield and Joshua Jebb and opened in March 1860.  Had its own in house gas works.  A year later a female prison was added for 70 women.  It was then closed in 1886 and it became an urgently needed barracks.  The army bought up commons in several parishes to the west. They took over the prison and called it the Inkerman  Barracks.  It was closed in 1965 and the site has been used for housing by the local authority..