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Sleaford, Hampshire

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OS grid reference
  
SU802381

Country
  
England

Post town
  
BORDON

Shire county
  
Hampshire

UK parliament constituency
  
East Hampshire

Region
  
South East

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Postcode district
  
GU35

District
  
East Hampshire

Sleaford, Hampshire

Sleaford in Hampshire, England is a hamlet of Headley Civil Parish and the Northanger Ecclesiastical Benefice. At the 2011 Census the population was included in the civil parish of Whitehill

Map of Sleaford, Bordon, UK

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.

The hamlet is home to the Country Market, Hampshire's last market store until it burned down in a major fire in 2010.

References

Sleaford, Hampshire Wikipedia