Seale and Sands
Seale and Sands is a
The Sands, including Sandy Cross forms the rest of the local government rural unit that provides certain minor services. Major services are provided by
The parish is almost square, 2 miles east to west and north to south. It covers 887 hectares (2,190 acres)[2][3] most of this is open countryside. The parish of Seale (combined villages of Seale and Sands) has a population of 900,[4]
Apart from houses by the old school, most of the houses in the parish are to the south, along Binton Lane and in The Sands.
The Sands
The Sands, is the largest settlement in the parish,
Sandy Cross
On the Seale side of Farnham Golf Course is part of the parish sometimes known as Sandy Cross, towards the west it turns at an informal point into Furze Hill and a heavily pined area. Here behind a few houses is a worked sand pit.[5]
Demography and housing
The
Output area | Population | Households | Owned outright | Owned with a loan | hectares[4] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Seale and Sands | 907 | 360 | 169 (46.9%) | 127 (35.3%) | 887[4] |
The proportion of households in the civil parish who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free).
Output area | Detached | Semi-detached | Terraced | Flats and apartments | Caravans/temporary/mobile homes | shared between households[4] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(Civil Parish) | 244 | 98 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%.
References
- ^ Census data
- Ordnance surveywebsite
- ^ "Villages". www.atrk01.dsl.pipex.com. Archived from the original on 22 November 2004.
- ^ United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National StatisticsRetrieved 6 November 2013
- ^ a b OS Map with Listed Buildings and Parks marked