Talk:Sandy Balls

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how about a link to raywilliamjohnson's review of the sandy balls ad?

Speedy Deletion Declined

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Seems to be real

This definitely seems to be a real place. Go to the Google map at the location given in the coords, and click on one of the nearby bus stops, for example the one here, and follow the link in the popup placard to transportdirect.info, which is an authoritative source on transport geodata in the UK. Note the name "Sandy Balls" in the bus stop name "Godshill, Sandy Balls, EBound (On B3078 Roger Penny Way)". -- The Anome (talk) 15:43, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Further proof for the doubters

I hope by now that everyone accepts Sandy Balls is a real place, not a hoax name. (I have, in fact, been there myself) For further proof, see this BBC News website report on a fire that occurred there on 11 January 2023. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 51.194.245.235 (talk) 02:05, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

It definitely exists. I spent my holidays there in a primitive chalet as a young child in the 1950s, a fact which people always find amusing when I mention its name. I took two photographs in the article. Dudley Miles (talk) 12:04, 13 January 2023 (UTC)