 The Martians first land on Horsell Common on the north side of Woking, outside the Bleak House pub, now called Sands.The narrator flees in the direction of London, first passing Byfleet and then Weybridge before travelling east along the north bank of the Thames.Jane Austen's novel Emma is set in the fictional town of Highbury, Surrey, and the picnic at which Emma Woodhouse embarrasses Miss Bates takes place on Box Hill.