A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
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.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Sparsholt AP/CP Berkshire AncC |
| Place: | Sparsholt |
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