Short answers, pulled from the story.
Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England, bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the west. Its defining geographical feature is the chalk escarpment of the North Downs, which divides the densely populated north from the more rural south. The county has an area of 1,663 square kilometres.
Surrey has 22.4 percent woodland cover, compared to a national average of 11.8 percent, making it the most wooded county in England. Much of the county lies within the Metropolitan Green Belt, which has limited development and preserved mature woodland. In 2020 the Surrey Heath district recorded the highest proportion of tree cover of any local authority area in England, at 41 percent.
Runnymede near Egham is the site where King John sealed Magna Carta in June 1215. The concession was short-lived: John's efforts to reverse it reignited war, leading the English barons to invite Prince Louis of France to take the throne the following year.
Brooklands, between Woking and Weybridge, opened in 1907 as the world's first purpose-built motorsport racing circuit. The earliest written reference to cricket appears in records of the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, in the 16th century. Mitcham Cricket Club, formed in 1685, is the oldest documented cricket club in history and was within Surrey's borders until 1965.
Godalming became the first town in the world to have a public electricity supply, in 1881. Woking was the site of Britain's first crematorium, opened in 1878, and Britain's first mosque, founded in 1889. Brookwood Cemetery near Woking, established in 1849 with its own dedicated railway service from London, grew into the largest burial ground in the world. The Wey Navigation, opened in 1653, was one of England's first canal systems.
Surrey was home to many significant writers. Lewis Carroll wrote Through the Looking-Glass at his sisters' home in Guildford and died there. H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds while living in Woking. Arthur Conan Doyle lived in Hindhead and used the county as a setting for Sherlock Holmes stories. George Eliot wrote most of Middlemarch in Haslemere, and William Cobbett was born, lived and died in Farnham.