diff --git a/libs/text-splitters/langchain_text_splitters/spacy.py b/libs/text-splitters/langchain_text_splitters/spacy.py
index d83aea9a001..447a3e42960 100644
--- a/libs/text-splitters/langchain_text_splitters/spacy.py
+++ b/libs/text-splitters/langchain_text_splitters/spacy.py
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ class SpacyTextSplitter(TextSplitter):
         separator: str = "\n\n",
         pipeline: str = "en_core_web_sm",
         max_length: int = 1_000_000,
+        *,
+        strip_whitespace: bool = True,
         **kwargs: Any,
     ) -> None:
         """Initialize the spacy text splitter."""
@@ -28,10 +30,14 @@ class SpacyTextSplitter(TextSplitter):
             pipeline, max_length=max_length
         )
         self._separator = separator
+        self._strip_whitespace = strip_whitespace
 
     def split_text(self, text: str) -> List[str]:
         """Split incoming text and return chunks."""
-        splits = (s.text for s in self._tokenizer(text).sents)
+        splits = (
+            s.text if self._strip_whitespace else s.text_with_ws
+            for s in self._tokenizer(text).sents
+        )
         return self._merge_splits(splits, self._separator)
 
 
diff --git a/libs/text-splitters/tests/integration_tests/test_nlp_text_splitters.py b/libs/text-splitters/tests/integration_tests/test_nlp_text_splitters.py
index 402d01655d9..b19e8bf86ec 100644
--- a/libs/text-splitters/tests/integration_tests/test_nlp_text_splitters.py
+++ b/libs/text-splitters/tests/integration_tests/test_nlp_text_splitters.py
@@ -37,3 +37,16 @@ def test_spacy_text_splitter(pipeline: str) -> None:
     output = splitter.split_text(text)
     expected_output = [f"This is sentence one.{separator}And this is sentence two."]
     assert output == expected_output
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("pipeline", ["sentencizer", "en_core_web_sm"])
+def test_spacy_text_splitter_strip_whitespace(pipeline: str) -> None:
+    """Test splitting by sentence using Spacy."""
+    text = "This is sentence one. And this is sentence two."
+    separator = "|||"
+    splitter = SpacyTextSplitter(
+        separator=separator, pipeline=pipeline, strip_whitespace=False
+    )
+    output = splitter.split_text(text)
+    expected_output = [f"This is sentence one. {separator}And this is sentence two."]
+    assert output == expected_output