Sparkbrook, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Sparkbrook, an ecclesiastical parish in Aston parish, Warwickshire, on the river Cole, 2 miles SW of Birmingham. It has a station jointly with Smallheath on the Warwick and Birmingham section of the L. & N.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Birmingham. It was constituted in 1867; population, 16,189. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £350 with residence. The church is modern. See BIRMINGHAM.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Warwickshire | |
| Civil parish | Aston | |
| Hundred | Hemlingford | |
| Poor Law union | Aston |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Sparkbrook from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Spark-Brook)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Sparkbrook are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Warwickshire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Warwickshire 1619 is available on the Heraldry page.