OCKHAM, (Surrey) on the S. E, side of Woking, 6 m. from Guilford, was purchased of John Weston, Esq; by Sir Peter King, then Ld.-Ch. Jus. of the common-pleas, and afterwards Ld.-Chanc. whose seat here, now his son Ld. King's, was in the old house near the Ch. In this p. are wells of a purgative nature; and a mill over the Wey. The inh. have a tradition, there was formerly a nunnery at Ockham-Court; and that a subterraneous passage went from it, under the r. to Newark-abbey, by which there was a communication bet. the monks and nuns.