Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STAVERTON

STAVERTON, a parish, with a village, in Daventry district, Northampton; 2½ miles WSW of Daventry, and 5¾ W by N of Weedon r. station. It has a post-office under Daventry. Acres, 2,240. Real property, £5,003. Pop., 486. Houses, 118. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £700.* Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church is good, and there are an endowed school with £44 a year, and charities £42.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Staverton Parish       Daventry Poor Law Union/Registration District       Northamptonshire Ancient County
Place: Staverton

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