Ockley
| Ockley | |
 Ockley Green |
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  Ockley |
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| Area | 13.75 km2 (5.31 sq mi) |
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| Population | 871 (Civil Parish)[1] |
| – density | 63/km2 (160/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | TQ1540 |
| Civil parish | Ockley |
| District | Mole Valley |
| Shire county | Surrey |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Dorking |
| Postcode district | RH5 |
| Dialling code | 01306 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Mole Valley |
Coordinates: 51°08′53″N 0°21′47″W / 51.148°N 0.363°W
Ockley is a rural village in Surrey. It is lies astride the A29, the modern road using the alignment of Stane Street (Chichester). The A29 diverges from the A24 from London about 2.5 miles northeast and takes the alignment of Stane Street a mile north of the village. It has a medieval parish church, see list of places of worship in Mole Valley.
History
Finds of small artifacts dating to Roman Britain associated with the Roman road stretching from Chichester to London have been made since at least the 19th century.[2]
Ockley's name fits the uncertain site of where battle took place described in the entry for the year 851 of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. According to the chronicler, king Æthelwulf and his son Æthelbald, together with the West-Saxon army, fought against an invading Danish army of 350 ships that had plundered London and Canterbury previously, and had also put king Beorhtwulf of Mercia to flight. The chronicler refers to the battlefield as Aclea, Oak Lea, and the Danish army was defeated suffering “the greatest slaughter… we have heard tell of up to this present day”.
Ockley appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Hoclei. It was held by Radulf (Ralph) from Richard Fitz Gilbert. Its domesday assets were: 1 hide. It had 5 ploughs, woodland worth 20 hogs. It rendered £3 10s 0d to its overlords per year.[3]
Nicholas Culpeper, a leading Stuart period herbalist, was born here on 18 October 1616.
In 1911 the parish was "agricultural, except for a little brick and tile making".[2]
Amenities
Pubs/restaurants
- Cricketer's Arms
- Inn on the Green
- King's Arms (recently closed and being turned into two houses)
- Bryce's Restaurant (also known as the Old School House).
Convenience stores and services
Ockley has a Post Office, village shop and garage, and a local vegetables shop towards the station.
Sports
Informal football is generally played on Ockley Green which has football posts in place.
Ockley has Gatton Manor Golf Course on the outskirts of the village, within the parish bounds.[4]
The village has featured in longer routes of the London-Surrey Cycle Classic.
Geography
Between Dorking and Horsham, close to the Sussex/Surrey border, Ockley stretches to the escarpment of Leith Hill, the second highest point in South East England, outranked by Walbury Hill in the far south-west of Berkshire. The northern border is marked by the Greensand Ridge. Close to this small beds of Sussex marble which is in fact remains of a former limestone area of the Weald are found.[2]
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Holmbury St Mary | Coldharbour, Capel | South Holmwood | |
| Ewhurst Green, Ewhurst |  |
Capel | ||
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| Walliswood and Okewood or Oakwood Hill, Ewhurst | Warnham | Kingsfold |
The village is centred about 3 km west of the A24.
Transport
Roads
The A29 is the main road as set out. Local minor roads provide relatively straight access from just north of the village's developed area to Ewhurst to the west and Capel to the east.
Public transport
- Rail and other
The village is nearest served by Ockley railway station which centred 2 miles (3.2 km) east, due to a Victorian aristocrat having imposed his manor's name on a station closer to Capel, Surrey. Neither a bus stop is in the village nor a taxi rank at Ockley station.
Footpath
An extensive network of footpaths connects the area to the Greensand Ridge and to the Sussex Border Path.
Demography and housing
| Output area | Detached | Semi-detached | Terraced | Flats and apartments | Caravans/temporary/mobile homes | shared between households[1] |
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| (Civil Parish) | 147 | 132 | 44 | 18 | 11 | 0 |
The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%.
| Output area | Population | Households | % Owned outright | % Owned with a loan | hectares[1] |
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| (Civil Parish) | 871 | 352 | 34.7% | 26.7% | 1375 |
The proportion of households in the civil parish who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free).
See also
References
- 1 2 3 Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics Retrieved 21 November 2013
- 1 2 3 H.E. Malden (editor) (1911). "Parishes: Ockley". A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
- ↑ Surrey Domesday Book
- ↑ Gatton Manor Retrieved 2013-11-29
External links
Media related to Ockley at Wikimedia Commons
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