Calverleigh is located within Mid Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Tiverton Hundred. It falls within Tiverton 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 70 in 1801 69 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 44 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in Tiverton 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 Calverleigh 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 45/2 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 45NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS923143. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS91SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 114, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 181. Geological sheet 310 also covers the area.

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

CALVERLEIGH is a sequestered little place, though less than 3 m. from Tiverton, and near a main road. The church (St. Mary) has a 14th century tower and font, and some 14th century work in the S. aisle. The nave and chancel were over-restored in the 19th century, but the S. aisle and arcade are better. The latter, rebuilt c. 1500, has well-carved capitals. The aisle has its original wagon roof, ribbed and ceiled, with carved bosses, and its E. window contains some late medieval glass. Here are the memorials of the Southcotts, who held the manor in the 16th and 17th centuries, including a curious mural monument painted with rustic portraits (1638) and an incised slate floor-slab to George Southcott (1654). There are considerable remains of a plain late medieval rood-screen, and a screen in the tower. The ancient mansion of the Southcotts was being demolished when Davidson visited the scene on 27 July 1843. (Davidson, MS. Church Notes, sub Calverleigh.)The present Calverleigh Court presumably took its place.