Sparsholt (/ˈspɑːʃəʊlt/) is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England, 2+1⁄2 miles (4 km) west of Winchester.

[2] The parish also includes the hamlet of Dean, Farley Mount Country Park and Crab Wood SSSI.

Nothing is visible at the site today, but finds from the excavations are on display in Winchester City Museum.

It is now abandoned, leaving only the ruin of its 12th-century parish church of Saint Peter, which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

[6] The earliest known record of the toponym is as Speoresholt in an Anglo-Saxon charter from AD 901 now reproduced in the Cartularium Saxonicum.

[7] A late-Saxon manuscript from about 1060–66, now reproduced in the Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici, records it as Spæresholt.

[10] 3⁄4 mile (1.2 km) northwest of the village is Sparsholt College,[11] a leading land based college on the edge of the village, from which BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time series broadcasts from its "potting shed".

In 2009 villagers bought the shop under an industrial provident scheme to safeguard its future.

[18] Sparsholt is part of the Wonston and Micheldever ward which elects three councillors to Winchester City Council, as well as the Winchester Downlands ward which elects a councillor to Hampshire County Council.