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3 unusual facts about Ockley


Æthelwulf of Wessex

His most notable victory came in 851 at "Acleah", possibly Ockley in Surrey or Oakley in Berkshire.

Baryonyx

In January 1983, an amateur fossil hunter named William Walker came across an enormous claw sticking out of the side of a clay pit - Smokejacks Pit at Wallis Wood, Ockley near Dorking in Surrey (United Kingdom).

John Steere

John Steere was purportedly born in Ockley, Dorking, Surrey in England around April 6, 1634.


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The History of the Saracens

Simon Ockley, vicar of Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, devoted himself from an early age to the study of eastern languages and customs and was appointed Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic at Cambridge in 1711.


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