STAVERTON, Gloucestershire
- Original source material relating to Staverton, and other parishes in
Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the
Gloucestershire Archives.
- "STAVERTON, a parish in the lower division of Deerhurst hundred, county
Gloucester, 4¾ miles N.W. of Cheltenham, its post town. The village is
situated on the line of the Gloucester and Cheltenham railway. The
inhabitants are wholly agricultural. The living is a vicarage*, with the
curacy of Boddington annexed, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol,
value £436. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is an ancient
structure."
[Description from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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