New Office in Brookwood

We are excited to announce that we have now settled into our new office in Brookwood. Why not pop in for a coffee and a chat? We are so grateful for the welcome we have received so far and can’t wait to become a familiar face within the Brookwood community.

Why not pop into our office at Bakersgate on Connaught Road for a coffee and a chat?

Being based here is incredibly important to us. We are ideally placed in a new small commercial development called Bakersgate on Connaught Road. It has a great community feel.

Within easy reach of Woking town centre yet easy access to pretty villages like Pirbright.

Some interesting facts about Brookwood:

The village is known for the 500-acre Brookwood Cemetery, also called the London Necropolis. The village also gave its name to the former Victorian Brookwood Hospital, once the leading mental institution in Surrey. Since its closure in 1994, it has been redeveloped as housing.

The village borders Knaphill, on the other side of the main A322 road, which is home to Brookwood Manor. The village also borders the Basingstoke Canal which has a flight of locks there. Pirbright Camp is a short distance to the west, with the decommissioned Princess Royal Barracks, Deepcut slightly further away to the west. The village is surrounded mainly by heathland such as Sheet’s Heath, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, Smarts Heath and Brookwood Heath.

The village has grown over the 150 or so years since the vast cemetery and station first set roots in this area. Many of London’s dead were buried in Brookwood Cemetery during the Victorian era due to the over-population of the city at that time. The logistics were accomplished using the London Necropolis Railway, consisting of funeral trains running from London Waterloo railway station to Brookwood and subsequently down a small branch line into the cemetery grounds. This branch-line is now disused. The main station and nearby Brookwood Club private members bar are at least 100 years old.^[11]

You can find out more about Brookwood here