STAVERTON, a parish in the lower division of the
hundred of DEERHURST, county of GLOUCESTER, 4
miles (W. by N.) from Cheltenham, containing 262 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction
of the Bishop of Salisbury, rated in the king's
books at £12, and in the patronage of the Crown by
reason of lunacy. The church is dedicated to St. John
the Baptist. The Gloucester and Cheltenham rail-road,
passes through the parish.