Geography
Surrounded on all sides by a Green Buffer, Upper Halliford is situated 15.6 miles (25.1 km) southwest of London and 12.3 miles (19.8 km) NNE of the county town, Guildford with easy access to the River Thames 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south and Heathrow Airport centred 4.5 miles (7.2 km) to the north.
A bypass of the A244 cuts off a portion of the west of the village with a pedestrian crossing from meeting minor roads on each side, leaving the core of the village with far less traffic compared to the northern stretch. This stretch is made up of Upper Halliford Road between the Manor Park recreation ground, Grange Farm mobile home village and its road bridge at the border with Sunbury Common, over the Shepperton Branch Line and the M3 motorway, which marks this border.
In 2001 Halliford gave a population figure of 3,011.
Charlton | Ashford Common Sunbury Common |
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Shepperton | Walton on Thames |
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