Norfolk: Sparham

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Sparham is about 8 miles N.E. of East Dereham.

Census

Church Directories

The parish is in the Deanery of Sparham, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
The parish church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of the Virgin Mary: Description and pictures.
Linnell, Charles Lawrence Scruton: St Mary's, Sparham.
[Sparham, The Church, 1976]

Church Records

Marriages: These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's Marriage Registers.

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Sparham was in Mitford and Launditch Registration District.

Directories

Historical Geography

Sparham is in Eynsford hundred.

Land and Property

Great Britain: Statute: Sparham Inclosure Act, 1806.
An act for allotting lands in the parishes of Sparham and Billingford, in the county of Norfolk.
[George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1806]

Maps

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Mitford and Launditch Registration District, 1836
Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish and nearby places.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Sparham became part of the Mitford and Launditch Union, and the workhouse was at Gressenhall.

Voting Registers

See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers

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