Sleaford

Sleaford is a market town and civil parish in the district of , England. On the edge of the Fenlands, it is 11 miles north-east of , 16 mi west of , and 17 mi south of .
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  • Type: Town with 17,400 residents
  • Description: market town and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Lafford” and “Sleaford, Lincolnshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sleaford railway station and St Botolph’s Church.

Railway station
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serves the town of Sleaford in , . It lies at the intersection of the Peterborough–Lincoln line and the Poacher Line from to via .

Church
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St Botolph's Church is an church in in , England. The area has been settled since at least the Anglo-Saxon period, and a church existed at Quarrington by the time the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086, when it formed part of Ramsey Abbey's fee.

School
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Carre's Grammar School is a selective secondary school for boys in Sleaford, a market town in , England. Founded on 1 September 1604 by an indenture of Robert Carre, the school was funded by rents from farmland and run by a group of trustees.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Quarrington.

Village
Photo: Dave Hitchborne, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the civil parish of Sleaford, in the district of , England. The old village and its church lie approximately 1 mile south-west of the centre of Sleaford.

Sleaford

Latitude
52.9997° or 52° 59′ 59″ north
Longitude
-0.4096° or 0° 24′ 34″ west
Population
17,400
Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SLE
Open location code
9C4XXHXR+V5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27409527
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2637659
Wiki­data ID
Q1891939
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Sleaford” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سليفورد”
  • Asturian: “Sleaford”
  • Basque: “Sleaford”
  • Bengali: “স্লেয়াফোর্ড”
  • Cebuano: “Sleaford”
  • Chinese: “斯利福德”
  • Chinese: “斯利福特”
  • Dutch: “Sleaford”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سليفورد”
  • French: “Sleaford”
  • German: “Sleaford”
  • Gujarati: “સ્લીફોર્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “סליפורד”
  • Irish: “Sleaford”
  • Italian: “Sleaford”
  • Japanese: “スリーフォード”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಲೆಫೋರ್ಡ್”
  • Korean: “슬리퍼드”
  • Ladin: “Sleaford”
  • Latvian: “Slīforda”
  • Lithuanian: “Slifordas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sleaford”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sleaford”
  • Persian: “اسلیفورد”
  • Polish: “Sleaford”
  • Portuguese: “Sleaford”
  • Romanian: “Sleaford”
  • Russian: “Слифорд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sleaford”
  • Slovenian: “Sleaford”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اسلیفورد”
  • Spanish: “Sleaford (Lincolnshire)”
  • Spanish: “Sleaford”
  • Swedish: “Sleaford”
  • Tamil: “சிலீபோர்ட”
  • Telugu: “స్లెఫోర్డ్”
  • Turkish: “Sleaford”
  • Ukrainian: “Сліфорд”
  • Urdu: “سلی فورڈ”
  • Welsh: “Sleaford”
  • “Sleaford”

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