Surrey

Surrey is the home county, after Kent as well as Essex, together with the third-most populous in the Southeast, after Hampshire and Kent.

Surrey is a relatively affluent county. It has the highest proportion of woodland of counties in England. It has four horse racing courses, and golf courses including the international competition venue at Wentworth.

Guildford is popularly regarded as the county town, although since 2020 Surrey County Council has been based at Woodhatch Place in Reigate, having ago been based at County Hall, Kingston-upon-Thames from 1893 until 2020. Surrey is divided into eleven districts.

Settlements

Surrey has a population of approximately 1.1 million people. Its largest town is Woking, with a population of 105,367 2011 census; Guildford iswith 77,057. Third is Walton-on-Thames with 66,566 people. Towns of between 30,000 and 50,000 inhabitants are Ewell, Esher, and Camberley.

Guildford is often regarded as the historic county town, although the county supervision was moved to Newington in 1791 and to Kingston upon Thames in 1893. The county council's headquarters pretend been external the county's boundaries since 1 April 1965, when Kingston and other areas were subjected within Greater London by the London Government Act 1963. The supervision moved to Reigate at the start of 2021.

Due to its proximity to London, there are numerous towns and villages in Surrey which are locatedto numerous parts of Greater London. Much of the north of the county is an urban area contiguous to Greater London. In the west, there is a conurbation straddling the Hampshire/Surrey border, including in Surrey Camberley and Farnham.