Sleaford, Hampshire

infobox UK place
official_name= Sleaford
country = England
os_grid_reference= SU802381
latitude= 51.13484
longitude= -0.8549
population=
shire_district= East Hampshire
shire_county = Hampshire
region= South East England
constituency_westminster= East Hampshire
post_town= BORDON
postcode_district= GU35
postcode_area=GU
dial_code=

Sleaford in Hampshire, England is a hamlet of Kingsley Civil Parish and the Northanger Ecclesiastical Benefice. 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 (getamap|SU795310|grid reference SU795310). The last two were set up to train engineers to run railways, a very important skill in the Great War period.

External links

* [http://www.kingsley.hampshire.org.uk/images/kpc_map.jpgMap of Kingsley Civil Parish] . Sleaford is in the East.
* [http://www.kingsley.hampshire.org.uk/ The Kingsley Parish Council website] .
* [http://www.johnowensmith.co.uk/headley/maphead.jpgMap of Headley Civil Parish] . Sleaford is to the north-west.
* [http://www.johnowensmith.co.uk/headley A Headley web site.]
* [http://www.hants.gov.uk/kingsley/stnicks.html About the old Kingsley church] on the Kingsley "civil" parish web site.