Sleaford, Hampshire

Sleaford in Hampshire, England is a hamlet of Headley Civil Parish and the Northanger Ecclesiastical Benefice. It is in the civil parish of Whitehill

This article is about Sleaford in Hampshire. For Sleaford in Lincolnshire, see Sleaford.

Sleaford
Sleaford Location within Hampshire
OS grid reference	SU802381
District	East Hampshire
Shire county	Hampshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BORDON
Postcode district	GU35
Police	Hampshire
Fire	Hampshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	East Hampshire

It lies on the A325 and B3004 roads where they cross the small River Slea, a tributary of the Wey. Since the road junction has been re-aligned, there are now three bridges across the river.

Sleaford is at the edge of Broxhead Common, a part of the belt of heathland on the Surrey-Hampshire border from Berkshire to West Sussex, which the British Army found attractive for training. There are numerous military colleges, camps and training grounds in the region which extends in a zone southwards from Windsor, through Camberley, Frimley and Aldershot to Bordon (near Sleaford), Woolmer and Longmoor Military Camp (grid reference SU795310). The last two were set up to train engineers to run railways, a very important skill in the Great War period.

See also

• Sleaford (disambiguation)

References

External links

• Map of Kingsley Civil Parish. Sleaford is in the East.
• The Kingsley Parish Council website.
• Map of Headley Civil Parish. Sleaford is to the north-west.
• A Headley web site.
• About the old Kingsley church on the Kingsley civil parish web site.