Silverton is located within Mid Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Hayridge Hundred. It falls within Cullompton 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 1236 in 1801 1188 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. The lay subsidy of 1524 valued the community at £10/14/08. In 1641/2 310 adult males signed the Protestation returns. It is recorded as a borough from 1321. A market is recorded from 1792.

A parish history file is held in Cullompton 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 Silverton 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 56/15 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 56SE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SS956030. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS90SE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 114, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 192. Geological sheet 325 also covers the area.

Illustrations: The image below is of Silverton as included in the Library's Etched on Devon's memory website. Other images can be searched for on the local studies catalogue.

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

SILVERTON is a large and very pleasant village, containing much domestic building in cob and thatch ranging in date from the 16th century to the 19th. The whole parish is very beautiful, diversified and undulating, and one could walk its roads and lanes and fields for days on end to enjoy its richness.

The village is one of the oldest in Devon, dating from the first years of the Saxon occupation, and like most of these ancient primary settlements was a royal manor before the Conquest and gave its name to a hundred (later changed to Hayridge Hundred). It formerly had a market and a fair, and was reckoned to be a "borough."

The church (St. Mary) is mostly a 15th early 16th century building, built of the local volcanic stone. The chancel pier on the N. side bears the date 1503. The chancel was rebuilt on a mean scale in 1863, spoiling an otherwise handsome interior, and the old screen (which was probably Jacobean, and contemporary with the W. gallery) was taken out and chopped up for firewood.

About 1 m. E. of the village is Silverton Park, where the 4th and last Earl of Egremont (d. 1845) built a large mansion, of which nothing is now left except the "Classical" stables. The farms of Greenslinch, Yard, and Burn are all recorded in Domesday Book. Of these, Greenslinch is still substantially a 15th century house. Dunsmoor occurs as early as 1211, and part of the present house is Tudor in date. At Great Pitt Farm, just NW. of the village, is a very interesting 17th century ceiling, depicting sporting subjects.