Staverton Northamptonshire Family History Guide
Staverton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1563
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1706
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STAVERTON, a parish, with a village, in Daventry district, Northampton; 2½ miles WSW of Daventry, and 5¾ W by N of Weedon r. station. It has a post-office under Daventry. Acres, 2,240. Real property, £5,003. Pop., 486. Houses, 118. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £700. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church is good, and there are an endowed school with £44 a year, and charities £42.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
STAVERTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Daventry, hundred of Fawsley, S. division of the county of Northampton, 2 miles (W. S. W.) from Daventry; containing 503 inhabitants.
This parish, which is situated on the Warwick and Northampton road, comprises by measurement 2400 acres: the soil is various; the surface is elevated and hilly, and the surrounding scenery interesting. The river Nene has its source in the parish, and the Leam separates it from the county of Warwick.
The living is a discharged vicarage, endowed with the rectorial tithes: net income, £549; patrons, the Dean and Canons of Christ-Church, Oxford. The tithes were commuted for 276 acres of land, under an act of inclosure, in 1774; and there are 74 acres of old glebe. The church is a handsome structure in the decorated and later English styles, with a lofty square embattled tower.
The Rev. Francis Baker, in 1767, endowed a school with some land which, at the inclosure, was exchanged for 27a. 1r., now producing £52 per annum. The Rev. Sir John Knightley subsequently gave £200 for a Sunday school. Dr. Fanshaw, regius professor of divinity at Oxford, was incumbent of the parish.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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- County: Northamptonshire
- Civil Registration District: Daventry
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Daventry
- Poor Law Union: Daventry
- Hundred: Fawsley
- Province: Canterbury