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56-632: Ockenden may refer to: Ockenden International , a charity Ockenden, California , U.S. Donna Ockenden , Senior British midwife and chair of the Ockenden Review Eddie Ockenden (born 1987), Australian hockey player Hilary Ockendon (fl. 1986–2015), British mathematician John Ockendon (born c. 1940), British mathematician Leon Ockenden (born 1978), English actor William Ockenden See also [ edit ] Ockendon (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

112-519: A chapelry of Ash . Later, the Staff College was established to the east of the academy, and a property speculator built the nearby Cambridge Hotel. During the 19th century, Camberley grew in size. This was given added impetus with the arrival of the branch-line railway and railway station in 1878 and a reputation for healthy air, due to the vast number of pine trees, which were said to be good for those suffering from pulmonary disorders . By

168-426: A decline in footfall and increases in vacancies as shoppers in affluent areas move their spending online and towards leisure and experience activities as opposed to traditional retail. Major employers include Siemens , which moved its UK headquarters to the area in 2007. Burlington Group who moved into Watchmoor Park in 2009 and Sun Microsystems , until they were taken over by Oracle in 2010, whose UK headquarters

224-660: A junior school again in 1994. The Royal Albert Orphan Asylum was founded in Camberley in 1864 and the first 100 children were admitted in December of that year. Originally a mixed institution, girls were not admitted after 1903. It was renamed the Royal Albert School in 1942 and its management was merged with that of the Royal Alexandra School in 1948. The following year, an Act of Parliament

280-536: A registered charity in 1955. In 1958, the Ockenden Venture took over Donington Hall near Derby as a school for boys. In 1958, The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay was bought by David Astor (son of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor ), and publisher of The Observer between 1948 and 1975. From November 1960 until 1970, the Astor family leased The Abbey at a peppercorn rent to the Ockenden Venture. The Abbey

336-627: A retail, entertainment and residential complex, opened in 2008. Transport links through the area began to improve with the opening of the London- Basingstoke turnpike in 1728, now the A30 London Road. The Basingstoke Canal , which runs to the south of Camberley, was completed in 1794 and the wharf at Frimley was used to supply building materials for the Royal Military College. Blackwater station , on

392-434: A small settlement grew up to the south and became known as Yorktown (also spelled York Town). A second British Army institute, the Staff College , opened to the east in 1862, and the nucleus of Cambridge Town was laid out at around the same time. The two settlements grew together over the following decades and are now contiguous. Much of the town centre dates from the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including The Atrium,

448-467: A town alderman). Watchetts Drive takes its name from a former manor field (Watchetts is derived from woad scaet , meaning land where woad grows). Osnaburgh Parade is named after Osnaburgh , an estate in Fife held by Prince Frederick. Camberley is in the far west of Surrey, adjacent to the boundaries of Hampshire 's Hart district and Berkshire 's Bracknell Forest district. It lies directly between

504-408: Is a late 1980s development anchored by rent free stores such as Sports Direct subsidiary House of Fraser . The High Street has a number of shops as well as bars and clubs, many of the latter being more recent additions. There are a number of secondary shopping streets including Park Street, Princess Way and parts of London Road, including the "Atrium" development. Camberley's town centre is suffering

560-595: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ockenden International Ockenden International was in 1951 by Joyce Pearce, Margaret Dixon and Ruth Hicks as the Ockenden Venture . Its name derives from Pearce's family home ‘Ockenden’ in Woking , Surrey and its aim was to help children living in displaced persons' camps in post-war Germany by providing vocational training and shelter. The organisation became

616-628: Is in the Borough of Surrey Heath and is close to the county boundaries with Hampshire and Berkshire . Known originally as "Cambridge Town", it was assigned its current name by the General Post Office in 1877. Until the start of the 19th century, the area was a sparsely populated area of infertile land known as Bagshot or Frimley Heath. Following the construction of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst in 1812,

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672-416: Is linked by bus to local destinations in west Surrey, northeast Hampshire and southeast Berkshire. Companies operating routes through the town include: Thames Valley Buses to Bracknell; Arriva Guildford & West Surrey to Guildford via Woking; Stagecoach South to Aldershot and Farnborough; and White Bus to Ascot and Staines . The M3 runs to the south of Camberley and is accessed via junction 4 at

728-519: Is linked to Deepcut via the B3015. A £1.2M shared cycle and footpath between Blackwater station and Watchmoor was completed in 2017 and a new bike-parking facility opened in Princess Way in the town centre in 2021. In the same year, Surrey County Council consulted on a scheme to improve local cycling infrastructure, focused on a route between Camberley and Frimley. The first school to open in

784-512: The A30 ) was known as a haunt of highwaymen , such as William Davies – also known as the Golden Farmer – and Claude Duval . The land remained largely undeveloped and uncultivated due to a sandy topsoil making it unsuitable for farming. In A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain , written between 1724 and 1726, Daniel Defoe described the area as barren and sterile; "a mark of

840-720: The British Red Cross . In 2023, the nearest ambulance station to Camberley is at Farnborough. In 2023, the nearest hospital is Frimley Park Hospital around 1.4 mi (2.3 km) from Camberley. There are three GP surgeries in the town, on Upper Gordon, Park and Frimley Roads. Camberley railway station is immediately south of the town centre and is managed by South Western Railway , which operates all services. Trains run to Ascot via Bagshot (extended to and from London Waterloo during peak periods) and to Aldershot via Frimley (a few trains continue to Guildford ). A 2017 infrastructure assessment commissioned by

896-518: The East of England . The new name is a portmanteau of "Cam" (the name of a local stream), "Amber Hill" (an area of high ground identified in a survey of 1607 by the cartographer, John Norden ) and "—ley" (a suffix found in local toponyms, such as Frimley and Yateley , derived from the Old English lee meaning "shelter" or lea meaning "pasture" or "meadow"). As Cambridge Town, the settlement

952-659: The Reading to Guildford line , opened to the west of Yorktown in 1849 and Camberley station , on the Ascot to Aldershot line , followed in 1878. In the second half of the 20th century, improvements to the road network in the area included the construction of the M3 motorway and the Blackwater Valley relief road. The area has a strong links to the performing arts - Camberley Theatre was opened in 1966 and Elmhurst Ballet School

1008-457: The "Old Dean", "Parkside", "St Michael's", "St Paul's", "Town" and "Watchetts" wards. The Brough of Surrey Heath is twinned with Sucy-en-Brie , France and with Bietigheim-Bissingen , Germany. The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%. The remaining households not accounted for above were temporary/caravans and shared households. The proportion of households in

1064-520: The 1990s and in 2001 they only had Kilmore House in Camberley . The Ockenden Venture changed its name to Ockenden International in 1999. The organisation funds a Junior Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford . Camberley Camberley / ˈ k æ m b ər l iː / is a town in northwest Surrey , England, around 29 miles (47 kilometres) south-west of central London . It

1120-617: The A30 national route and M3 motorway (junction 4 exit). It is at the northern edge of the Blackwater Valley conurbation, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Farnborough , 8 miles (13 km) south of Bracknell and 17 miles (27 km) east of Basingstoke . The town of Blackwater , 3 km (1.9 mi) to the west is identified by the Government Statistical Service (including its ONS office) as within

1176-471: The Basingstoke Canal company agreed that the water company could abstract up to 910,000 L (200,000 imp gal) per day from the canal, at a cost of 1 penny per 4,500 L (1,000 imp gal). In 2023, the drinking water supply for Camberley is provided by South East Water . Initially, wastewater from Camberley was disposed of in cesspits or discharged to local streams. In

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1232-747: The Camberley Built-up-Area but is in the Hart District of Hampshire and has its own town council (both take in Hawley ). Camberley primarily lies on the Bagshot Beds , deposited in the Eocene . This sandy layer contains seams of clay and areas of pebble gravel. Before the 19th century, the area now occupied by Camberley was referred to as Bagshot or Frimley Heath. An Iron Age fort, among many examples known as Caesar's Camp,

1288-550: The Camberley area, a National school , was established in 1818. Originally housed in a cottage close to the Royal Military College, one of its early pupils was the composer, Arthur Sullivan . In 1871, it moved to a site adjacent to the St Michael's Church vicarage. By 1872, there was a second school in Yorktown, which may have been a school for nonconformists , although its origins are uncertain. The first Cordwalles School

1344-569: The London Road, having been commissioned for the Lord Mayor's Show of the previous year. Into Our First World , a sculpture by Ken Ford , is on display outside the borough council offices on Knoll Road. Camberley was assigned its current name on 15 January 1877 by the General Post Office . Previously, the settlement had been known as "Cambridge Town" and the change was made to prevent letters and parcels being misdirected to Cambridge in

1400-525: The Main Square shopping centre. Park Street has been pedestrianised and landscaped as part of the development. Leisure facilities include a nine-screen cinema, a bowling alley , a health and fitness club, cafés and restaurants. Various elements of The Atrium was opened during 2008, with the final elements, the main cinema and bowling alley, opening in October and November 2008, respectively. In 2009,

1456-497: The borough council notes that rail journey times to London from Camberley are slow ( c.  72  – c.  80 minutes) and that many local residents choose to drive to Brookwood , Farnborough (Main) and Sunningdale for faster, direct services. Blackwater railway station is immediately to the west of Yorktown and is managed by Great Western Railway , which operates all services. Trains run to Reading via Wokingham and to Gatwick Airport via Guildford. Camberley

1512-522: The building of The Royal Military College, which later became the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst , in 1812. A settlement known as "New Town" grew in the area around the college which in 1831 was renamed Yorktown, after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany . At this time, the population was 702. In 1848, the first parish church of St. Michael, Yorktown was built by Henry Woodyer , in an area formerly part of Frimley , itself only

1568-487: 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 percentage is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible percentage of households living rent-free). Camberley's town centre is host to The Square shopping centre (previously called The Mall), controversially purchased by Surrey Heath Borough Council for £110 million in 2016. This

1624-531: The destruction of foxes and other wildlife. After debate and delay (plans having been discussed for over half a decade), in 2006, a 7-acre (2.8 ha) mixed-use development west of Park Street named The Atrium was built of residential, leisure and retail buildings with wide pedestrianised areas and 683 public parking spaces. Its 217 mid-rise apartments split into courtyards in the Barcelona style. Fourteen new retail units face directly onto Park Street, opposite

1680-433: The end of the century the population had reached 8,400. Since then, the town has absorbed the original settlement of Yorktown, which is now regarded as part of Camberley. The Southern Scott Scramble, the first known motorcycle scrambling event, took place on Camberley Heath on 29 March 1924. The event, won by A.B. Sparks, attracted a crowd in the thousands and is considered to be the first instance of what later developed in

1736-561: The end of the war. The site was used by Ballard School in the 1950s. Barossa Secondary School began teaching its first pupils in September 1963, although the official opening ceremony did not take place for another two years. The secondary modern school , on the Old Dean estate, was constructed on a site adjacent to the former Ballard School. Frimley and Camberley Grammar School opened in 1931 on Frimley Road. The school moved to

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1792-576: The former Ballard School, adjacent to the then new Barossa Secondary School in 1967. The original site was then used as an annex for France until 1971. The buildings have since been used for Watchetts School, now South Camberley Primary and Nursery School. Kings International College was opened as France Hill Secondary School in 1947. For the first eleven years, it was based at Franz Hill House, which had been built c.  1840 . The school moved to its current location on Watchetts Avenue in 1959 and adopted its present name in 2001. Collingwood College

1848-458: The just resentment shew'd by Heaven upon the Englishmen's pride… horrid and frightful to look on, not only good for little, but good for nothing". A brick tower was built on top of The Knoll in the 1770s, by John Norris of Blackwater. It may have been used for communications but there is no firm evidence. The remains are now known as The Obelisk . The town as it now stands has its roots in

1904-474: The local fire authority is Surrey County Council and the statutory fire service is Surrey Fire and Rescue Service . An ambulance service is recorded in Camberley in 1898. Initially it operated with a horse-drawn vehicle, but the service was equipped with a motorised ambulance during the 1920s. Patients were charged a fee for using the service, which was affiliated to the St John Ambulance and

1960-403: The mid-1880s a drainage system was installed, leading to a sewage farm at Yorktown. Following a report in 1902, which condemned the state of the town sewers, new pipework was installed and a new wastewater treatment works opened in Yorktown in 1907. In 2023, Camberley Sewage Treatment Works is operated by Thames Water . The postal service to Yorktown began in 1844 and the first postmaster

2016-558: The nearest police station to Camberley is at Aldershot, operated by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary . The nearest counter service run by Surrey Police is at the Woking Borough Council offices. Camberley Fire Brigade was founded in May 1889 and was initially equipped with a hand-operated Merryweather pump. In 1900, the brigade moved to The Avenue and relocated to the current station in London Road in 1967. In 2023,

2072-601: The older Donington boys. In October 1962, the Ockenden Venture decided to support non-European children as well and in 1971 it merged with another refugee charity, Lifeline. In 1979, when the government decided to accept Vietnamese boat people into the UK, Ockenden, Save the Children and the British Council for Aid to Refugees were given responsibility for reception and resettlement these families. Houses closed down in

2128-467: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ockenden . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ockenden&oldid=1155791730 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description

2184-595: The southwestern corner of the town. The stretch of the motorway through the Borough of Surrey Heath was upgraded to a smart motorway in 2017. The other major roads in the town are the A30, which runs roughly parallel to the motorway between Hounslow and Basingstoke, and the A331 Blackwater Valley relief road. Yorktown and east Camberley are linked to Frimley by the B3411 and A325 respectively. Old Dean

2240-729: The sport of motocross . During the Second World War , the Old Dean common was used as an instruction camp of the Free French Forces . The Kremer prize was conceived in the Cambridge Hotel in Camberley in 1959 after Henry Kremer toured a Microcell factory. The defunct Barossa Golf Club, on Barossa Common, was founded in 1893 and continued until the Second World War. The Old Dean housing estate

2296-519: The times when the two colleges were founded. The inns, the Duke of York and The Cambridge Hotel, were among the first buildings to be constructed in Yorktown and Camberley respectively. Several of the street names in Camberley and Yorktown are named for early local landowners, including Teckels Avenue (after John Teckel, builder of Teckels Castle), Stanhope Road (after the family of Griselda Stanhope, Teckel’s wife) and Sparvell Walk (after David Sparvell,

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2352-417: The town's households were named by Experian as having the highest carbon footprint in the UK, estimated at 28.05 tonnes per household per year (compared to 18.36 tonnes for the lowest, South Shields). Camberley is in the parliamentary constituency of Surrey Heath and was represented at Westminster from May 2005 to July 2024 by Conservative Michael Gove . After stepping down in the 2024 election Gove

2408-686: The works began to supply the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. In 1904, a short branch line was laid from the South Eastern Railway south of Blackwater station, enabling the coal required to be supplied by train. The works came under the control of the Southern Gas Board in 1949 and closed in 1969. The electricity supply to the area was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1909. Unlike most towns in Surrey, Camberley did not have its own power station and instead, electricity

2464-554: Was appointed in 1890. The telephone service to Camberley commenced in April 1897. The first police station was opened in 1892 on the corner of Portesbury Road and the High Street. In 1910, the local force had a total of eight officers. In 1971, the station moved to the east, but remained on Portesbury Road. The 1971 station closed in 2011. The building was demolished in 2016 for the construction of new houses and flats. In 2023,

2520-463: Was based in the town until 2004. Among the former residents are the Victorian composer, Arthur Sullivan , who attended Yorktown School as a child, the musician Rick Wakeman , who lived in Camberley during the 1980s, and the actress, Simone Ashley , who was born in the town in 1995. There are several works of public art in Camberley, including The Concrete Elephant , which was installed in 1964 on

2576-517: Was built in the 1950s on the "Old Dean Common" for residents of heavily bombed Surrey-area's homeless after the Second World War. Many of the roads on that half of the Old Dean are named after areas of London, with the others named after places on the common. In 1969 there was an outbreak of rabies when a dog, just released from a six month quarantine after returning from Germany, attacked two people on Camberley Common. The scare resulted in restriction orders for dogs and large-scale shoots to carry out

2632-421: Was formed in 1971 from the merger of Camberley Grammar School, Barossa Secondary School and Bagshot Secondary School. It became a self-governing Technology College in September 1994 and gained Foundation status in September 1999. The current Cordwalles School was founded in 1962 and was officially opened on 5 March 1963. Initially a primary and infants school, it became a middle school in 1971, before reverting to

2688-530: Was founded as the Mortimer School of Dancing in 1923. It adopted its current name in 1947, taken from Elmhurst House in Camberley, where it was based. During the Second World War, Sadlers Wells and Rambert Schools were evacuated to Elmhurst and the pupils of all three schools performed to entertain soldiers billeted locally and to raise money for the war effort. After the end of the war, pupil numbers began to expand (from 60 in 1933 to 240 in 1947) and

2744-547: Was founded in Elliot Place, Greenwich , in 1805 and one of its early pupils was the future prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli . In 1875, it moved to Cordwalls Farm, Maidenhead , from which it acquired its name. The school merged with Kingswood School, Camberley, which had been established on part of the former Collinwood Estate in 1910. In 1939, the school was evacuated to Market Drayton, but did not return to Camberley at

2800-675: Was located just across the Hampshire border in Minley next to the M3 motorway at junction 4a. Krispy Kreme UK are based in Albany Park, an industrial estate just outside Camberley in nearby Frimley. The York Town and Blackwater Gas Company was formed in 1859 and opened its gasworks at Yorktown in November 1862. Street lighting in Camberley was initially provided by oil lamps, but gas lamps were installed from 1900. In around 1903,

2856-472: Was originally named for Prince George, Duke of Cambridge , who laid the foundation stone of the Staff College in December 1859. Similarly, Yorktown (sometimes spelled York Town), to the west of Camberley, was named for Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany , who authorised the construction of the Royal Military College in December 1802. The dukes were commanders-in-chief of the British Army at

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2912-481: Was passed to formally amalgamate the two institutions, creating The Royal Alexandra and Albert School . Pupils from both schools were transferred in stages from their original sites to new accommodation at Gatton Park between 1848 and 1954. The former school buildings in Camberley were damaged by fire in 1987 and were demolished in 1994. The grounds were split in two by the construction of the M3. Elmhurst Ballet School

2968-410: Was purchased on the wholesale market and was distributed locally. The gas and electricity companies merged in 1927. The Frimley and Farnborough District Water Company was formed in 1893 and began to supply Camberley four years later. Water was extracted from the chalk aquifer and was piped to a filtration plant at Frimley Green, before being pumped to a service reservoir on Frith Hill. In 1893,

3024-582: Was replaced by Al Pinkerton of the Liberal Democrats Surrey County Council, headquartered in Reigate , is elected every four years. Camberley is represented by three councillors - one for each of the "Camberley East", "Camberley West" and "Heatherside and Parkside" divisions. Elections to Surrey Heath take place every four years. Three councillors represent "Heatherside" ward and two councillors are elected to each of

3080-524: Was to the north of this area alongside the Roman road The Devil's Highway. The Intenarium Curiosum , published in 1724, describes a collection of Roman pottery around the area, and a further collection was discovered at Frimley Green in the late 20th century. In the Middle Ages , the area was part of Windsor Forest . In the 17th century, the area along the turnpike road through Bagshot Heath (now

3136-433: Was used as a refugee children's home. The current dining room was the school room for Ockenden students, the solar was the girls dormitory and the library housed the boys. The first Ockenden houseparents of The Abbey were Dane and Joan Leadlay. Initially, it housed Polish girls, followed by South African , Tibetan and Rumanian students. Margaret Dixon took over the running of The Abbey in 1966, bringing with her some of

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