Sands, The Good Shepherd

The Church of the Good Shepherd in The Sands is part of the United Parisha united parish is the merger of two or more Church of England parishes to form a single new parish of Seale Puttenham and Wanborough.

The church dates from around 1875 and seems to have been built as a Chapel of EaseA daughter church within an ecclesiastical parish, or a chapel in an outlying area of the parish that is more convenient for parishioners to attend. to Seale St. Lawrence. Seale itself was originally a ChapelryA Chapel of Ease within an Anglican Parish, or a chapel in an outlying area of the parish that is more convenient for parishioners to attend in the Ancient ParishAn Ancient Parish is a Church of England parish which, until the 19th century, had both ecclesiastical and civil functions. of Farnham . It became a separate Ancient ParishAn Ancient Parish is a Church of England parish which, until the 19th century, had both ecclesiastical and civil functions. in 1539.

There is no graveyard at the Good Shepherd Church.

The Surrey Index of Names has over 8,000 names connected with Seale, Puttenham and Wanborough.

The Sands is a hamlet in the (civil) parishA civil parish is the lowest tier of local government in England. In urban areas it may be called a town council. Not all areas have parish or town councils.

[NB Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have different systems of local government.] of Seale and Sands in the West Surrey unitary authority area of Surrey (from April 2027)

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