- Ockham, Surrey
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Coordinates: 51°17′53″N 0°27′40″W / 51.298°N 0.461°W
Ockham 
Ockham
Ockham shown within SurreyPopulation 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 (
/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
- ^ Census data
- ^ Surrey Domesday Book
- ^ 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.
- ^ Google Hybrid Map of Wisley Airfield
- ^ Wisley Airfield Interest Group
- ^ Google Hybrid Map of Brooklands Airfield
- ^ OCK VOR
- ^ Picture of All Saints Church
External links
Towns, villages and hamlets in the Guildford District of Surrey, England 
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