Ockford Ridge

Ockford Ridge is a small housing estate in south east England. Built in the early-mid 1930s, it consists of roughly 200 homes and related amenities. There is also a playground and a basketball court on a green and there was a pub called the King Alfred, It has been knocked down and a couple of new homes have been built in place with the name of King Alfred Court. There is a social club in Coopers Rise and a shop on Quarry Hill, there is also a cemetery and bus stops. St Marks Church provides a place of worship for those residents so inclined.

The community is situated roughly between Eashing and Godalming. The council houses have been upgraded with double glazed windows recently and the project is finished.

Before it was a small housing estate, it was the site of a large manor house called Ockfordwood House. Ockfordwood house also took up all the space up of what is Aarons Hill now as well. Ockfordwood house was built in the 1870s by Thomas Cooper. Later converted into flats, it was to be incorporated into Aaron's Hill estate, but it burnt down in the 1950s. Building started in 1931 and was completed in late 1934. Blocks of four were built before any of the semi-detached houses. For its first year it had been variously called 'Chestnut Avenue', 'Chestnut Road', 'Chestnut Green', but it was changed to Ockford Ridge, because the Post Office requested for it to be changed as they were struggling with the constant name changes.

There are plans of building 119 new homes with the proposed entrance to be in the small car park in Franklyn Road and the houses are to be built behind the school and behind the cemetery.

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References

1. ^ http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/2058300_service_cuts_in_waverley_may_be_unavoidable
2. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-11524744
3. ^ www.surrey.police.uk/news_item.asp?artid=9670
4. ^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1318620/Mother-son-arrested-suspicion-murder-missing-82-year-old-befriended.html
5. ^ http://www.getwokingham.co.uk/news/s/2080552_teenage_bike_robber_breached_court_order

Coordinates: 51°10′N 0°38′W / 51.16°N 00.64°W / 51.16; -00.64