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.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
