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, Weybridge, capable of taking aircraft as large as the VC10.Īlthough the airfield is disused, the aviation connection remains: it is the location of OCK, a VOR navigational beacon which is the holding facility for south westerly arrivals into London Heathrow Airport. Ockham Common, to the north-east of the village, is the site of the disused Wisley Airfield, which has a paved 2 km (1.2 mi) runway (RWY 10/28). with deeply inlaid recess as in the East Horsley walls of the memorials to the Earl of Lovelace.
OLD LANE OCKHAM WINDOWS
Providing unusual quirkiness, it has brick-dentilled eaves over its third 3 first floor and one of its windows is considered "Lovelace style", i.e. It is of four storeys red stock brick with decorative brick and tile bands over each floor. One of the largest formerly industrial millhouses on the Wey, comparable to the converted mills in Old Woking and that of Stoke Mill, Guildford, Ockham mill is dated 1862 and is a Grade II listed building. Ockham Mill, one of a cluster of three buildings close to Wisley
In 1871, after returning to Georgia, they started the Woodville Co-Operative Farm School, modelled after the Ockham School. One year later, they left Ockham and returned to London. In 1852 their first child, Charles Estlin Phillips Craft, was born in Ockham. They attended the Ockham School, and paid for their education by working as teachers: William giving instruction in carpentry, and Ellen in sewing. After reaching Liverpool in 1850, following an arduous journey starting with a flight to freedom from Macon, Georgia, African-American slaves Ellen and William Craft were given a home by a parishioner in Ockham in 1851. Īn act of charity in the village assisted one family in the ' Underground Railroad' in the US that resulted from the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. His forefather Sir Peter King bought the manor using an Act of Parliament to cement the deal from the long-standing lords of the manor the Weston family of Albury, Send in Surrey, and of Sussex, who had acquired the manor from distant cousins who since their late Tudor period forebear, Francis Weston, owned it along with Sutton Place, Surrey in the extreme south of the parish of Woking. However it is the birthplace of William of Ockham the famous medieval philosopher and the proponent of Occam's razor.īyron's daughter, Ada Lovelace, lived briefly at Ockham Park before settling at Horsley Towers, which her husband the 1st Earl of Lovelace built in the village of East Horsley. Through the Middle Ages in the many records nationally (such as Assize Rolls and feet of fines), Ockham features no high nobles among its owners. The whole building was restored and enlarged in 1874-75 by Thomas Graham Jackson. A small chapel (north wing) was finished in 1735. The chancel and north aisle date from the 13th century, the south nave wall from the 14th century, and the tower and north aisle wall from the 15th century. The foundations were laid in the 12th century, and part of the nave was built then. Īll Saints' Church is a Grade I listed building. It rendered £10 per year to its overlords. Held by Richard Fitz Gilbert, its domesday assets were: 1½ hides, 1 church, 2 fisheries worth 10 d, 3 ploughs, 2 acres (0.81 ha) of meadow, woodland worth 60 hogs.
Ockham appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Bocheham. a collection of bronze-age objects discovered in 2013 during building works at the former Hautboy Inn, as well as the existence of a, relatively uncommon, bell barrow on Cockcrow Hill. Ockham has been occupied since at least the middle bronze age (c.1500-1100 BC), evidenced by the so-called 'Ockham Hoard'.
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