Sparsholt is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire. Kingston Lisle is a chapelry of Sparsholt.
Sparsholt was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire.
Other places in the parish include: Fawler.
Parish church: Holy Rood
Parish registers begin: 1558
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
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.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Sparsholt, 2 miles S.W. Wantage. P. 903.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
Parish Registers
Marriages at Sparsholt 1559-1812
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Berkshire, Sparsholt – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Sparsholt tombstones
Author: Oxfordshire Family History Society
England, Berkshire, Sparsholt – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Sparsholt, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Berkshire, Sparsholt – Church records ( 10 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Kingston-Lisle, 1607-1807
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kingston-Lisle (Berkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Kingston-Lisle (Berkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Sparsholt, 1607-1835
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Sparsholt (Berkshire)
Kingston Lisle parish registers, 1559-1964
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Kingston-Lisle (Berkshire); Howse, Violet M. (Violet Mary); Harris, Colin G.; Littleby, Irene
Marriages at Kingston-Lisle, 1560-1837
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Kingston-Lisle (Berkshire)
Marriages at Sparsholt, 1559-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Sparsholt (Berkshire)
Parish chest materials, 1623-1978
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Sparsholt (Berkshire)
Parish records, 1559-1812, and church and civil records, 1680-1939
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kingston-Lisle (Berkshire)
Parish registers for Kingston-Lisle, 1813-1964
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Kingston-Lisle (Berkshire)
Parish registers for Sparsholt, 1558-1972
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Sparsholt (Berkshire)
Sparsholt, Holy Rood parish registers, [1558-1972]
Author: Littleby, Irene; Berkshire Family History Society (England); Oxfordshire Family History Society; Church of England. Parish Church of Sparsholt (Berkshire)
England, Berkshire, Sparsholt – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Kingston Lisle, Berkshire, England
Parish register printout of Sparsholt, Berkshire, England
England, Berkshire, Sparsholt – Occupations ( 1 )
Parish chest materials, 1623-1978
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Sparsholt (Berkshire)
England, Berkshire, Sparsholt – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Parish chest materials, 1623-1978
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Sparsholt (Berkshire)
England, Berkshire, Sparsholt – Taxation ( 1 )
The hearth tax for the parishes of Uffington, Baulking, Woolstone, Kingston-Lisle and Fawler, A.D. 1663
Author: Little, John E.
Berkshire Historical Directories
Administration
- County: Berkshire
- Civil Registration District: Wantage
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Oxford, Pre-1836 – Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Abingdon
- Poor Law Union: Wantage
- Hundred: Shrivenham; Wantage
- Province: Canterbury
