Ocklynge is an area in Eastbourne, England.
The etymology is from the Anglo-Saxon language: lynge is thought to be from link or ridge, and the ock component is believed to come from Occa, a putative leader of a small band of Saxons.
This land was held by the Knights Hospitaller, and their return of 1338 the following particulars are given:[clarification needed] "There is at Okelyng one messuage which is worth yearly 12d.
Also pasture there is common for 200 sheep, which is worth yearly 16s 8d.
[3] Opened in 1857, it is the resting place of Agnes Macdonald, 1st Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe and her daughter Mary, second wife and daughter of Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Alexander Macdonald.