STAPLETON, a parish in the hundred of BARTON-REGIS, county of GLOUCESTER, 2 miles (N. B. by N.) from Bristol, containing 2137 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Bishop of Bristol, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Sir J ohn Smith, Bart. The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, has lately received an addition of seven hundred sittings, of which five hundred and seventyfour are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels, having granted £500 towards defraying the expense, Mary Webb, in 1729, bequeathed £450, which, with other subsequent donations, produces an annual income of £42.10., for teaching thirty children, and for the maintenance of three poor women in an almshouse adjoining the school, both of them founded by the above testatrix.