The Sands

The Sands is an electrical substation in Seale and Sands, Guildford District, England. The Sands is situated nearby to the pitch Seale and Sands Bowls Club, as well as near The Church of the Good Shepherd.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Church of the Good Shepherd and Soldier’s Ring hillfort.

The Church of the Good Shepherd

Church

Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Church of the Good Shepherd is situated 700 feet northwest of The Sands.

Soldier’s Ring hillfort

Archaeological site

Photo: BabelStone, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Soldier’s Ring hillfort is an archaeological site, which is situated 960 feet southwest of The Sands.

Crooksbury Hill

Peak

Photo: BabelStone, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Crooksbury Hill is a 17.2-hectare nature reserve within Puttenham and Crooksbury Commons east of Farnham in Surrey. It is owned by Surrey County Council and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Runfold and Compton.

Runfold

Village

Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Runfold is a village in Surrey, U.K., about 2 mi ENE of Farnham. Runfold lies on the ancient trackway known as the Pilgrims' Way and on the former route of the A31 road, which has by-passed the village since the early 1990s.

Compton

Neighborhood

Photo: Weydonian, CC BY 3.0.

Compton is a former village and today a semi-rural suburb centred 1 mile ESE of Farnham in the Waverley district of Surrey, England and connected to Farnham by two direct urban single carriageways and green space footpaths along the Wey which in part marks the northern boundary of the area together with the A31. Compton is situated 1½ miles west of The Sands.

Badshot Lea

Village

Photo: Hassocks5489, CC0.

Badshot Lea is a village in Surrey, England, close to Aldershot. Badshot Lea has access in either direction to the A31 and A331 and is connected to railway stations in the nearby towns with regular bus services. Badshot Lea is situated 2 miles northwest of The Sands.

The Sands

Type: Electrical substation
Categories: building and industry
Location: Seale and Sands, Guildford District, Surrey, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.20939° or 51° 12′ 34″ north

Longitude

-0.73779° or 0° 44′ 16″ west

Operator

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks

Open location code

9C3X6756+QV

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1443719348

OpenStreetMap feature

building=no

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