Coordinates: 51°14′02″N 0°19′54″W / 51.2340°N 0.3318°W / 51.2340; -0.3318

Dorking ( /ˈdɔrkɪŋ/) is a historic market town at the foot of the North Downs approximately 21 miles (34 km) south of London, in Surrey, England.

Dorking began life as a small staging on Stane Street, the Roman Road that linked London to Chichester on the English Channel.

Dorking appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as the Manor of Dorchinges. It was held by William the Conqueror. Its domesday assets were: one church, 3 mills worth 15s 4d, 16 ploughs, 3 acres (1.2 ha) of meadow, woodland and herbage worth 88 hogs. It rendered £18.

Subsequent Lords of the Manor were to include the Dukes of Norfolk, who lived in Dorking until they moved to Arundel. One of them is buried in Dorking churchyard. In the Medieval period, Dorking was a prosperous agricultural and market town, benefitting from its position on the junction of a number of important roads and tracks.

In 1750, the construction of a Turnpike Road made Dorking a staging post on the route to Brighton and the coast. The Bull's Head in South Street had a famous coachman, William Broad, whose portrait hangs in Dorking Museum in West Street. The inn that now dominates the centre of Dorking, the White Horse, was developed in the 18th century; previous buildings on this site having belonged to the Knights Templar and later the Knights of St John.

Daewon David Song (born February 19, 1975) is a Korean-American professional skateboarder recognized for his technical street skateboarding. He is a co-owner of Almost Skateboards, along with Rodney Mullen, and also skates for the company alongside other sponsored team riders.

Song grew up in the city of Gardena, California, and was given his first skateboard by his mother at the age of thirteen years. Song has stated that his early skateboarding influences were Christian Hosoi, Steve Caballero, Natas Kaupas and the Z-Boys.

Song became sponsored by World Industries at the age of sixteen years and appeared in numerous video productions for the company, including Love Child (1992). It is in Love Child that Song documented the first hardflip on film.

After nine years with World Industries, Song left in 1999 to start his own company called Deca Skateboards. Deca ceases operations after three years, citing failure to grow as the reason for closure.

Following the cessation of Deca, Song launched a short-lived company entitled Artafact in 2002, with Chris Haslam and Cooper Wilt included as team riders. The brand was dismantled in 2003.

Chantel McGregor is a British blues rock guitarist and singer-songwriter

Chantel McGregor attended Leeds College of Music where she achieved a number of awards including the Leeds College of Music Prize for Outstanding Musicianship. She gained a First Class Honours degree in Popular Music in July 2009 and has gone on to develop a career in the UK and international blues music scene, performing both solo and with her band.

In 2011, she was voted "Young Artist of the Year" at the British Blues Awards.

Her debut album "Like No Other" was produced by Livingstone Brown who has worked with such artists as Tina Turner, Bryan Ferry, Robin Trower, ABC and Bill Withers.