Friends of Woking Palace

The Woking Palace Archaeological Project 2009 was supported financially by Surrey County Council, Woking Borough Council, the Surrey Archaeological Society and the Heritage Lottery Fund; with ‘in kind’ assistance from Archaeology South-East (a unit of University College, London), QUEST (a unit of the University of Reading) and the Surrey Archaeological Society.

All the volunteer places on the excavation were filled, with over 100 members of the public signed up for the ‘dig for a day’ programme in the Community Archaeology trench and over 30 experienced volunteers to dig for longer periods in the other trenches designed to increase our understanding of the environment in which the medieval Manor and Palace developed.