Coordinates: 51°08′52″N 0°21′46″W / 51.1477°N 0.3627°W / 51.1477; -0.3627

Ockley is a historic village in Surrey, built on Stane Street, a Roman Road stretching from Chichester to London. Situated between Dorking and Horsham, close to the Sussex/Surrey border, Ockley nestles in the shadows of Leith Hill, the highest point in South east England. Neighbouring villages include Capel, Ewhurst Green and Rusper. It is a linear settlement running along the A29 and lying about 3 km west of the A24. Ockley is also a civil parish covering 1,374 hectares (5.3 sq mi).

There are four pubs in Ockley: Cricketer's Arms, Inn on the Green, King's Arms and Bryce's Restaurant (also known as the Old School House). In addition to the pubs, Ockley has a Post Office & village shop and garage, and a local veg shop out towards the station. There is also a golf course called 'Gatton Manor' on the outskirts of the village.

The village is served by Ockley railway station which lies over two miles to the East of the settlement. Yet the trains are few and far between with absolutely no trains on a Sunday. With no bus stop, the public transport in Ockley is poor.

Simon Ockley (1678 – 9 August 1720) was a British Orientalist.

Ockley was born at Exeter. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. in 1697, MA. in 1701, and B.D. in 1710. He became fellow of Jesus College and vicar of Swavesey, and in 1711 was chosen Adams Professor of Arabic in the university. He had a large family, and his latter days were embittered by pecuniary embarrassments, which form the subject of a chapter in Isaac D'Israeli's Calamities of Authors.

The preface to the second volume of his History of the Saracens is dated from Cambridge Castle, where he lay a prisoner for debt.

Ockley maintained that a knowledge of Oriental literature was essential to the proper study of theology, and in the preface to his first book, the Introductio ad linguas orientates (1706), he urges the importance of the study.

He died at Swavesey.