Sparsholt, Berkshire

Description
Sparsholt, a parish in Berks, near the Wilts and Berks Canal, 3 miles SSW of Challow station on the L.& S.W.R., and 3 1/2 W of Wantage. It includes Kingstone Lisle and Fawler, which are noticed separately, and the hamlet of Westcote, and has a post office under Wantage; money order and telegraph office, Childrey. Acreage, 3329; population of the civil parish, 447; of the ecclesiastical, 744. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Several manors are in this parish, two of which belong to the Hippisley family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £409 with residence. Patron, Queen's College, Oxford. The church of the Holy Rood is chiefly Decorated English, and has a peculiar Early English doorway. It has some ancient and interesting tombs and monuments, including two female effigies and one effigy of a knight all hollow and carved in wood.