Country: | England |
Static Image: | Sandridge, Wiltshire.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Former Church of England School |
Coordinates: | 51.38°N -2.1°W |
Official Name: | Sandridge |
Civil Parish: | Melksham Without |
Unitary England: | Wiltshire |
Lieutenancy England: | Wiltshire |
Region: | South West England |
Constituency Westminster: | Chippenham |
Post Town1: | Melksham |
Postcode District1: | SN12 |
Postcode Area1: | SN |
Post Town2: | Chippenham |
Postcode District2: | SN15 |
Postcode Area2: | SN |
Dial Code: | 01225 |
Os Grid Reference: | ST9364 |
Sandridge is a dispersed rural community to the east of Melksham, Wiltshire, England. It is part of the civil parish of Melksham Without.
An Ordnance Survey map of 1961 names a settlement at Sandridge Hill, 2.5miles east of Melksham, and a hamlet of Sandridge, 0.25miles to the north;[1] as of 2015 these names are no longer in gazetteers and Sandridge refers to a wider area along the A3102, with Sandridge Common identified on road signs near Melksham.
A National School was built in 1873 at Sandridge Common, on land given by Ralph Ludlow Lopes[2] and educated children of all ages until 1953;[3] around that time it became known as Forest and Sandridge Church of England Primary School. In 2015, to cater for the eastward expansion of Melksham, the school moved to a new building on the outskirts of the town.[4]
Sandridge Park (not to be confused with Sandridge Park, Devon) is an ashlar-faced country house which stands in parkland north of the A3102, about 20NaN0 east of Melksham.[5] The two-storey house was built between 1856 and 1859 for Henry Lopes.[6] After being used for a time as a hotel, it was sold in 2018 as an eight-bedroom house for £2.8m.[7]
The former coach house and stables of the same date, now converted into a house, is Grade II listed. Further uphill on the other side of the road is Sandridge Tower, a former folly belonging to Sandridge Park, also now a house. Built in ashlar in the late 19th century, its four storeys are topped by a battlemented parapet.