Woking, England
Martian Landing Strip
"Home of alien invasions and one-way system despair"
Official Coat of Arms
A shield bearing a crossed Martian tripod and a shopping trolley rampant, set upon a field of Victorian canal water, with the motto banner reading 'Semper Confusus' beneath a stylised roundabout.
TripAdvisor Review
★★★☆☆ 3/5
"Came for the H.G. Wells connection, stayed because I couldn't find my way out of the ring road. The Wetherspoons in the old Ancient Egyptian-style building is genuinely bizarre and I mean that as a compliment. Lightbox gallery was surprisingly good, town centre otherwise feels like a shopping centre that swallowed a small town whole. Three stars, would get lost again."— BrianFromByfleet, Surrey
Property Listing
Nestled in the heart of Surrey's commuter belt, this vibrant town offers UNRIVALLED access to London Waterloo in a mere 24 minutes, an EXTRAORDINARY canal-side regeneration zone, and genuinely UNIQUE Egyptian-revival pub architecture you simply won't find anywhere else in the stockbroker belt!
Twinned With
Roswell — Both towns have built their entire tourism identity around aliens that never actually visited a Wetherspoons there.
Supporting Evidence
Woking was the setting for H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' and even has a Martian tripod sculpture in the town centre, despite the aliens choosing, somewhat inexplicably, to invade Surrey first.