1813 to 1880 Baptism Project Sporle St Mary |
Baptisms 1813 to 1880
The parish of Sporle lies towards the
western portion of central Norfolk. Sporle is located roughly 2
1/2 miles northeast of the market town of Swaffham and sits a
little over a mile north of the A47 road which crosses Norfolk
from west to east from King's Lynn to Great Yarmouth. Sporle is a
mid-sized and rather linear village mostly sat along a northward
leading lane heading towards nearby Castle Acre from the A47,
strung along this lane and its immediate side lanes are a long
string of the village whilst the wider parish has the usual
scatter of farms and cottages. Sporle sits away from the poorer
soils of nearby Breckland and its farming is dominated almost
entirely by arable farming with early gazetteers placing over 90%
of the parish acreage as set to arable farming, today large fields
dominate the rounded hills of the parish replete with the harsh
yellow hue of oil-seed in many. Sporle sits just over a half mile
east of Norfolk's premier hiking track, The Peddars Way, an
ancient route the history of which is disputed, passes close by
enabling today's hikers to seek respite in Sporle's inn, soon to
be reopened as the first to commemorate King Charles III. Sporle
parish, which in early medieval times adsorbed the twin parishes
of Palgrave, is large by Norfolk standards, covering almost 4,200
acres it would have supported a population of close to 750
parishioners. |
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Two standard 800-entry
register books cover the period of this transcript - the second
running onwards to completion in 2004. The first register is filmed
on Microfilm MF1717, the second on MFRO731. Whilst the first film is
not an elderly one the second is a very recent filming with good
quality images reflecting modern standards of reproduction. In
addition to these legacy resources, for those with appropriate
subscriptions, digitised imagery is available on most major
subscription sites. A word must be mentioned regarding dates within the second register. For some reason the clerk has decided to express virtually every baptism dates with respect to the moveable feasts of the christian year, using phrases such as 18th Sunday after Trinity or 2nd Sunday in Lent. Whilst every effort has been made to determine the exact dates of these events I am no expert on the dating of movable Christian events so all dates should be regarded as estimates and approximate to the real dates. |
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