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Sandy Cross, Surrey

Seale
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St Laurence church
Seale is located in Surrey
Seale
Seale
Seale shown within Surrey
Population 907 (2001 Civil Parish Census)
OS grid reference SU8947
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Farnham
Postcode district GU10
Dialling code 01252
Police Surrey
Fire Surrey
Ambulance South East Coast
EU Parliament South East England
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51°13′16″N 0°39′47″W / 51.221°N 0.663°W / 51.221; -0.663Coordinates: 51°13′16″N 0°39′47″W / 51.221°N 0.663°W / 51.221; -0.663

Seale is a village in Surrey, England. Seale covers most of the civil parish of Seale and Sands and the steep slope and foot of the south side of the Hog's Back (mid-western section of the North Downs between Farnham and Guildford) as well as a large hill which exceeds it – as such is part of the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The Sands, including Sandy Cross forms the rest of the local government rural unit that provides certain minor services. Major services are provided by Guildford Borough Council and Surrey County Council. Across the old nucleus and mostly below the North Downs passes a short stretch of the long-distance footpath, the Pilgrims' Way (North Downs Way). Littleworth Cross is the southern sparsely inhabited junction settlement on minor woodland lanes, which has a heritage-listed park and garden which played host to an important event in the evolution of the work of international early 20th century homes and gardens designer Gertrude Jekyll. The west of the parish contains Farnham Golf Club.

Seale derives from the Old English word for "hall" or, alternatively, for "willow" (see for example Salfords).

The Sands is not a relatively old name for any part of Seale, first recorded in Tudor period records, and derives from the quantities of Bargate sandstone and sand present in the far north-west of the Greensand Ridge especially in its high uplands, crowned here by the highest point in the parish, Crooksbury Hill.


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