In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sparsholt like this:
SPARSHOLT, a parish in Wantage and Faringdon districts, Berks; near the Wilts and Berks canal, 2 miles SSW of Challow r. station, and 3½ W of Wantage. It includes Kingston-Lisle and Fawler; and has a postal pillar-box under Wantage. Acres, 6,340. Real property, £8,340. Pop., 863. Houses, 190. ...
The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £363.* Patron, King's College, Oxford. The church is chiefly decorated English, and has a peculiar Norman doorway. A chapel of ease is in Kingston Lisle. There are a national school, and charities £20.
Sparsholt through time
Sparsholt is now part of Vale of White Horse district. Click here for graphs and data of how Vale of White Horse has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Sparsholt itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Sparsholt, in Vale of White Horse and Berkshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2130
Date accessed: 27th April 2024
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