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 anchors the South West Arrival Stack for London Heathrow Airport, which along with Biggin Hill, Kent, Bovingdon, Hertfordshire and Lambourne, Essex are London's main holds. Ockham Common, to the north east of the village, is the site of the disused Wisley Airfield, which has a paved 2 km runway. Most notably, Ockham is believed to be the birthplace of William of Ockham-famous Mediaeval philosopher and the proponent of Occam's razor-and, more recently, Ada Lovelace lived at Ockham Park. West of the A3 is Wisley Common. The common stretches today from Hatchford Park westwards to the A3 Portsmouth Road. Its domesday assets were: 1½ hides, 1 church, 2 fisheries worth 10d, 3 ploughs, 2 acres of meadow, woodland worth 60 hogs. Ockham Common is a wooded common in the midst of Surrey, to the north of Ockham, the village which gives the common its name. Ockham appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Bocheham. Other neighbouring villages include Ripley, Wisley and Effingham.
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The village lies to the east of the A3 between Cobham and Guildford. For stout belief may happen to save the ship, while Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem would be only.
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Ockhams razor is not worth the stout belief of any common seaman. Ockham is a small village near East Horsley, in Surrey, England. Occams razor (also Ockhams razor Latin: lex parsimoniae 'law of parsimony') is a problem-solving principle attributed to William of Ockham (c. Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: