Ockham, Surrey

Ockham, Surrey

Coordinates: 51°17′53″N 0°27′40″W / 51.298°N 0.461°W / 51.298; -0.461

Ockham
Ockham is located in Surrey
Ockham

 Ockham shown within Surrey
Population 384 [1]
OS grid reference TQ073565
District Guildford
Shire county Surrey
Region South East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Postcode district GU23
Police Surrey
Fire Surrey
Ambulance South East Coast
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament Mole Valley
List of places: UK • England • Surrey

Ockham (play /ˈɒkəm/) is a tiny English village near East Horsley, in Surrey, England. The village lies to the east of the A3 which runs between Cobham and Guildford. Other neighbouring villages include Ripley, Wisley and Effingham.

Ockham appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Bocheham. It was held by Richard Fitz Gilbert. Its domesday assets were: 1½ hides; 1 church, 2 fisheries worth 10d, 3 ploughs, 2 acres (8,100 m2) of meadow, woodland worth 60 hogs. It rendered £10.[2]

Most notably, Ockham is believed to be the birthplace of William of Ockham[3]—famous Mediaeval philosopher and the proponent of Occam's razor—and, more recently, Ada Lovelace lived at Ockham Park.

Ockham Common, to the north east of the village, is the site of the disused Wisley Airfield,[4][5] which has a paved 2 km (1.2 mi) runway (RWY 10/28). As late as 1972, this airfield was in service as a satellite fit-out and flight test centre for Vickers and latterly the British Aircraft Corporation, linked to their main factory and airfield at nearby Brooklands,[6] Weybridge, capable of taking aircraft as large as the VC10.

Although the airfield is disused, the aviation connection remains, being the location of OCK,[7] a VOR navigational beacon which anchors the South West (SW) Arrival Stack for London Heathrow Airport (ICAO: EGLL / IATA: LHR), which along with Biggin Hill, Kent (BIG - SE Arrivals), Bovingdon, Hertfordshire (BNN - NW Arrivals) and Lambourne, Essex (LAM - NE Arrivals) are London's main holds.

Ockham has a small church, All Saints;[8] a memorial to those who gave their lives in the Great War and World War II; a cricket club; and the pub The Black Swan (near Ockham Common).

The village gave its name to HMS Ockham, a Ham class minesweeper.


Ockham has both a cricket and football team that plays at weekends at Hautboy Meadows on Ockham Lane. The cricket club have two teams in the Surrey Downs League& a Sunday friendly only side. The Football Club are in the Guildford & Woking Alliance.

The club house, that has recently been refurbished, is open for members (new members welcome) on Friday evenings all year around and opens all day Saturdays and Sundays during the cricket season

References

  1. ^ Census data
  2. ^ Surrey Domesday Book
  3. ^ There are claims that he was born in Ockham, Yorkshire but it is now accepted that his birth place was in Surrey. See Wood, Rega (1997). Ockham on the Virtues. Purdue University Press. pp. 3, 6–7n1. ISBN 9781557530974. 
  4. ^ Google Hybrid Map of Wisley Airfield
  5. ^ Wisley Airfield Interest Group
  6. ^ Google Hybrid Map of Brooklands Airfield
  7. ^ OCK VOR
  8. ^ Picture of All Saints Church

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