These three put an advert in the local paper, asking if anyone had a piece of land and would be prepared (for a small sum) to allow Archery to take place on it.

Apparently, there was very little response, so they posted notification of the Inaugural Meeting, without having any where to shoot.

One or two interested people turned up, together with the original three and they all sat around talking about Archery and discussing ways to approach the Local Authorities to try and secure a shooting venue, when the door opened and in came a Gentleman "Mr. Foat" and offered, there and then, a ground on which we could shoot.

The club started that evening with six members, all paying around £5-00p (in old money) for membership of the new club together with membership of The Grand National Archery Society.

The club shot at the initial venue at Martyrs Lane in Woking for approximately 17 years, building up its reputation and membership, whilst retaining its overall aim, which was to enjoy the sport of Archery.

We left Martyrs Lane because the club required better facilities, like Toilets instead of tree’s, due in the main to a steady increase in Lady members and younger children.

Our new venue was terrific, with "Toilets", and "Showers" and even a "Bar" as well as a Field to shoot on and the grass was cut for us, instead of having to do it ourselves.

Think of all the time you would have for Archery if you didn’t have to cut the grass, go to the Toilet, Drink in the Bar and have a Shower.

However the luxury of all this had to come to an end, when the popularity of the club meant that Club Night became almost unmanageable due to the number of people at the field at one time.

So we are now at Wisley, on a field that is just for our use, with a shooting line that is almost 200 meters long, with adequate, if not luxurious facilities and a club that has still retained the philosophy under which it was formed.

We have a membership that fluctuates between 90 & 110 over the years, making us one of the biggest clubs, if not the biggest club in Great Britain.

We have now been in Archery for 40 (2008) years and have become one of the main clubs in Surrey.

Our members form a large proportion of the County Team, in Recurve, Compound and Longbow Archery.

As you will see from the above Woking Archery Club enjoys it’s Archery and is very Friendly.

If you choose to visit us or undertake a Beginners course you will definitely not feel intimidated in any way.

We trust this gives you a brief idea of what we are and have achieved over the years - obviously there is far more to say, but we will not bore you here.