Staplegrove, Somerset

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Staplegrove like this:

STAPLEGROVE, a parish in Taunton district, Somerset; 1½ mile NW of Taunton r. station. It has a post-office under Taunton. Acres, 1,059. Real property, £4,585. Pop., 469. Houses, 89. The property is much subdivided. There are several good residences, a private lunatic asylum, flax mills, and a tannery and manure manufactory. The living is a rectory in the diocose of Bath and Wells. Value, £205.* Patron, R. Fort, Esq. The church was restored in 1857. There is a national school.

Staplegrove through time

Staplegrove is now part of SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Staplegrove itself, go to Statistics.

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