Staverton, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Staverton, an ecclesiastical parish in Wiltshire, on the river Avon, 2 miles N of Trowbridge station on the G.W.R. It was constituted in 1855. Post town, Trowbridge. Population, 347. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Cloth manufacture is carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £100 with residence. The church is a small plain building of stone. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Staverton:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Staverton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Staverton)

Maps

Online maps of Staverton are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Wiltshire papers online:

• Salisbury and Winchester Journal
• Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
• Wiltshire Independent
• Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle