Know about Dorking : Dorking is a market town at the foot of the North Downs approximately 25 miles south of London, in Surrey, England. Dorking began life as a small staging post on Stane Street, A feature of this ancient Market town is the wonderful Bow fronted shop windows that face out from the clusters of buildings that line the narrow old streets. It is a pleasant town, surrounded by green hills and some of the finest countryside to be found anywhere. It was held by William the Conqueror. Its domesday assets were: 1 church, 3 mills worth 15s 4d, 16 ploughs, 3 acres of meadow, woodland and herbage worth 88 hogs. It rendered £18. In the 11th Century, Dorking was recorded in the Domesday Book as the Manor of Dorchinges.
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