Alverdiscott is located within Torridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Fremington Hundred. It falls within Torrington Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes. The Deaneries are used to arrange the typescript Church Notes of B.F.Cresswell which are held in the Westcountry Studies Library. The population was 278 in 1801 241 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website.In 1641/2 76 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in Torrington Library. You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database. Further historical information is also available on the Genuki website

Maps: The image below is of the Alverdiscott area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765.

On the County Series Ordnance Survey mapping the area is to be found on 1:2,500 sheet 20/9 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 20SW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS520252. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS52NW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 127, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 180. Geological sheet 293 also covers the area.

Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:

ALVERDISCOTT (pronounced Alscott). The church (All Saints) stands high, with fine views all around. It is mainly a 15th century building, heavily restored in the early 19th, when the N. arcade was rebuilt in a curious and unsatisfactory manner. There are medieval tiles of local manufacture in the S. porch, and a Norman font. In the N. aisle is a fine monument to Gilbert Hody(1686), and also an excellent altar-tomb with an alabaster effigy of a youth in Caroline costume- Thomas Welshe, son of James Welshe (1639). Webbery was a Domesday manor. The present house was rebuilt about 1820.