SPARKWELL is a hamlet, and, together with the hamlets of Lee Mill Bridge, Venton, Hemerdon and Bottle Hill, was formed into an ecclesiastical parish from Plympton St. Mary civil parish August 15, 1884. Sparkwell is about 2 miles west from Cornwood station on the Exeter and Plymouth section of the Great Western railway, 3 east-by-north from Plympton and about 7 north-east from Plymouth, in the Southern division of the county, Plympton hundred and union, Ermington and Plympton petty sessional division, East Stonehouse county court district, rural deanery of Plympton, archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter. The church of All Saints, erected in 1859, at a cost of £1,169, is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave and south transept: a chancel and other screens were added in 1887 by public subscription: there are 224 sittings. The register dates from the year 1872. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £285 (paid by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners), in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Windsor, and held since 1884 by the Rev. Pender Hodge Cudlip M.A. of Magdalen Hall, Oxford. A burial ground of half an acre was given by the Woollcombe family in 1888. Beechwood is the property and seat of Lord Seaton D.L., J.P. Goodamoor is the seat of Maj.-Gen. Paul Winsloe Phillipps-Treby J.P.; Blacklands, of James Conran esq. and Miss Conran and Hemerdon House, of the Rev. G. L. Woollcombe M.A. Lee Mill Bridge has a bridge across the river Yealm. The population in 1891 was 954.

SCHOOLS

Sparkwell (mixed), for 130 children; average attendance, 85.

Lee Mill (mixed), built in 1895, for 70 children; average attendance, 54.