Ockham

Other current and historical names

Bocheham

Parish/Community: Ockham
District/Borough: Guildford
County: Surrey
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°17'56"N 0°27'53"W
Eastings/Northings: 507123, 156650
OS Grid: TQ071566
Mapcode Local: GBR 2G.TR4
Mapcode Global: VHFV9.WML4

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Ockham within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Ockham in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Ockham. par. and vil. (ry. sta. Horsley and Ockham), Surrey, 4 miles SE. of Woking, 2376 ac. (42 water), pop. 549; gives the title of viscount to the Earl of Lovelace.

Ockham in the Domesday Book

A village in Woking hundred, in the county of Surrey.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Almer
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Richard son of Count Gilbert
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Richard son of Count Gilbert
- Taxable Value: 9 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £5 in 1066; £5 in 1070; £5 in 1086
- Households: 6 villagers; 2 smallholders; 3 slaves
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 2 men's ploughs (4 plough lands)
- Meadow: 2 acres
- Woodland: 60 swine render
- Churches: 1
- Other resources: 2 fisheries

British Place Names

Ockham, Surrey

Ockham is a village in Surrey

Ockham in historic gazetteers

Ockham in the Domesday Book