Staverton
STAVERTON, a chapelry, in the parish of Trowbridge, union and hundred of Melksham, Westbury and N. divisions, and Trowbridge and Bradford Subdivisions, of Wilts, 2½ miles (N.) from Trowbridge; containing 228 inhabitants. The chapel has been enlarged, the Incorporated Society granting £125 in aid of the expense: the living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the Rector, with a net income of £100. Here is a large cloth manufactory.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.