Sparham, Norfolk
Historical Description
Sparham, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, on the river Wensum, 2 miles NW from Lenwade station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, and 8 NE from Dereham. It has a post office under Norwich; money order office, Great Witchingham; telegraph office, Lenwade railway station. Acreage, 1785; population, 265. Most of the property belongs to the Earl of Leicester, who is also lord of the manors of Sparham Hall, Stewtay Hall, and Mantebys Hall. The rectory manor belongs to the rector. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £375 with residence. The church is a building of flint and stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, and there are Free Methodist and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Norfolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Sparham St. Mary | |
Hundred | Eynsford | |
Poor Law union | Mitford and Launditch |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Norfolk Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers for Norfolk online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with Norfolk Record Office have the following parish records online for Sparham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1573-1911 | 1573-1911 | 1573-1836 | 1573-1900 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Sparham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sparham (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Sparham 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 Norfolk newspapers online:
- Norwich Mercury
- Norfolk Chronicle
- Diss Express
- Thetford & Watton Times and People's Weekly Journal
- Norfolk News
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.