Description
Sparkford, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, 4 1/2 miles SSW of Castle Gary, with a station on the G.W.R., 126 miles from London. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bath. Acreage, 1026; population, 287. Bronze celts and Roman relics are found. Sparkford Hall is the chief residence. A large fortnightly repository sale is held. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £220 with residence. The church, excepting the tower and chancel, was rebuilt in 1824.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
