Staverton, Devon Family History Guide
Staverton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Devon.
Other places in the parish include: Lanscove, Staverton St Matthew, and Wolston Green.
Alternative names: Staverton St Paul
Parish church: St. Paul de Leon
Parish registers begin:
Staverton
- Parish registers: 1614
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1614
Staverton St Matthew
- Parish registers: 1851
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Presbyterian and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STAVERTON, a parish, with three hamlets, in Totnes district, Devon; on the river Dart, 3 miles NNW of Totnes r. station. Post town, Totnes.
Acres, 5,356. Real property, £8,636. Pop. in 1851, 1,152; in 1861, 949. Houses, 208. The property is much subdivided. Cider is largely made; and slate is largely quarried.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £366. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of E. The church is good. The p. curacy of Landscove is a separate benefice. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £66.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
STAVERTON (St. George), a parish, in the union of Totnes, hundred of Haytor, Teignbridge and S. divisions of Devon, 3¼ miles (N. by W.) from Totnes; containing 1069 inhabitants.
It is bounded on the south and south-west by the river Dart, and comprises 4820 acres, of which 50 are common or waste land. The soil is various, and the surface hilly. The substratum abounds with blue and grey slate, and marble of the same colours is found, of which there are some valuable quarries; a brown freestone of soft quality occurs in those parts of the parish where the super incumbent soil is most fertile, and good limestone is quarried for manure.
The living is a vicarage, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter (the appropriators), valued in the king’s books at £32. 14. 9½.; net income, £366. The church contains some screen-work.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Devon
- Civil Registration District: Totnes
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter
- Diocese: Exeter
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1848 – None, Post-1847 – Ipplepen
- Poor Law Union: Totnes
- Hundred: Haytor
- Province: Canterbury