Luton is located within Teignbridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Ashcombe Hundred. It falls within Kenn 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.

A parish history file is held in Newton Abbot 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 Luton 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 102/13 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 102SW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX902769. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX97NW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 031, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 192. Geological sheet 339 also covers the area.

Extract from Kelly's Devonshire Directory

Luton is a hamlet , formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1866 form Bishopsteignton. The church of St John the Evangelist is an edifice of stone, erected in 1865.The eastern windows are stained.