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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sparham like this:
SPARHAM, a parish, with a village, in Mitford district, Norfolk; 5¼ miles E by S of Elmham r. station. Post town, Norwich. Acres, 1,770. Real property, £2,749. Pop., 353. Houses, 77. Most of the property belongs to the Earl of Leicester. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £548.* Patron, the Rev. H. Lombe. The church is good; and there are two Primitive Methodist chapels and a parochial school.
Sparham is now part of BRECKLAND District. Click here for graphs and data of how BRECKLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Sparham itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Sparham, in Breckland and Norfolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5469
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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