It is bounded by the Hoe Stream to the north and the River Wey to the south and between Kingfield to the west and farmland to the east.

The village has no dual carriageways or motorways, its main road is the A247, which connects Woking with Clandon Park and provides access to the A3.

The expanded village largely consists of semi-detached houses with gardens and covers an area of 224 hectares (550 acres) To the east of Old Woking's developed cluster are the ruins of Woking Palace which was the local manor house and a royal dwelling throughout the Tudor dynasty.

[3] Here Woking Palace was important as a main home of Margaret Beaufort, the pious and determined mother of Henry VII.

The double moat is shown in the survey by Norden of 1607, and the remains of what was the manor house are still visible at Woking Park Farm.

[8] The main sites of the James Walker factory and the Gresham Press operated from the 1890s[5] until the late 20th century.

A somewhat obscure, rarely marked name for the western network of residential roads, is the Elm Bridge Estate.

Mill Moor, directly south of the High Street, is a nature reserve criss-crossed by paths.

Surrounded by narrow channels which are branches of the River Wey, this imposing red-brick, tall lattice windowed former paper mill with red stone renderings has been converted to apartments and houses.

[13] This offshoot of the same printing works on the River Wey's backwater streams, Gresham's Mill, has also been converted to large apartments and houses; its façade is in light brick, set behind trees, with a stylistic multi-hipped, gable-end roof.

[14] The proportion of households in Old Woking who owned their home outright was within 4% of the borough and regional average.

[19] Local roads are indirect to reach the settlement however which brings the distance to just over 2 miles (3.2 km) by road, however pedestrian and cycle shortcuts exist, mainly to cross the green buffer, Woking Park, which is a large park used for sports, play and tree-lined walks.