Staverton is located within South Hams local authority area. Historically it formed part of Haytor Hundred. It falls within Totnes 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 1053 in 1801 663 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 396 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

A parish history file is held in Totnes 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 Staverton 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 115/13 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 115SW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX794640. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX76SE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 031, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 202. Geological sheet 350 also covers the area.

Illustrations: The image below is of Staverton 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:

STAVERTON rises in billowy country from the Dart valley above Totnes, and has long been famous for its cider. Staverton bridge, over the Dart, is one of the best medieval bridges surviving in Devon, probably built in 1413.

The church (St. Paul) is mostly an early 4th century building, with a plain, battered W. tower from the 13th century church. When Bishop Stapeldon visited Staverton in 1314 he gave directions for a larger church to be built, and the present church is the result. The excellent 15th century rood-screen, which was dilapidated, was almost rebuilt by Bligh Bond in 1891. There are good parclose screens of the same date, a Georgian pulpit, and a reading-desk formed of carved Jacobean panelling from the old clerk's pew removed many years ago.

Among the interesting houses of the parish are Pridhamsleigh, Sparkwell, and Blackler. The former is medieval in part. Kingston House was rebuilt by John Rowe after a fire in 1744. The Rowes were a Catholic family, and the house possessed a private chapel, of which part remains.