English Heritage sites near Staverton Parish
TOTNES CASTLE
4 miles from Staverton Parish
A classic Norman motte and bailey castle, founded soon after the Conquest to overawe the Saxon town. A later stone shell-keep crowns its steep mound, giving views across the town to the River Dart.
BERRY POMEROY CASTLE
4 miles from Staverton Parish
Tucked away in a steep wooded valley, Berry Pomeroy Castle is the perfect romantic ruin.
KIRKHAM HOUSE, PAIGNTON
7 miles from Staverton Parish
This late medieval stone house, afterwards split into three cottages was restored in the 1960s.
HOUND TOR DESERTED MEDIEVAL VILLAGE
8 miles from Staverton Parish
The remains of four 13th century stone farmsteads, on land originally farmed in the Bronze Age. This isolated Dartmoor hamlet was probably abandoned in the early 15th century.
GRIMSPOUND
11 miles from Staverton Parish
The best known of many Dartmoor prehistoric settlements, Grimspound dates from the late Bronze Age. The remains of 24 stone houses survive within a massive boundary wall.
BAYARD'S COVE FORT
11 miles from Staverton Parish
Picturesquely sited on the quayside at Darmouth, this Tudor artillery fort once contained heavy guns to protect the prosperous harbour town from attack.
Churches in Staverton Parish
St Matthew, Landscove
Landscove
Newton Abbot
01364 642698
https://dartandavonmissioncommunity.org.uk
St Matthew's Church, Landscove, welcomes you!
This is a beautiful mid 19th Century church, designed by John Loughborough Pearson, who later became the architect of Truro Cathedral. It has a pretty Victorian broached spire, rather untypical of the Devon style, and the attractive churchyard is approached through a delightful Grade II listed slate-roof, buttressed lychgate.
Along with the church, the school and Hill House Nursery, Landscove village (including the hamlets of Memory Cross, Barkingdon, Beara, Woolston Green, Gullaford, Blacker Barton and Thornecroft) is a thriving community.
The service pattern varies from week to week, so please click on the Services and Events tab for details.
We are part of the Dart and Avon Mission Community, which also includes:
St Luke's, Buckfastleigh
St Paul de Leon, Staverton
St John the Baptist, Littlehempston
St George the Martyr, Dean Prior
St Petroc's, South Brent
Bl;essed Virgin Mary, Rattery.
The team rector for the whole mission community is Tom Benson - please see the "get in touch" page for details. He is assisted by a ministry team consisting of team vicar Gina Radford, curate Laura McAdam, retired priests George Day, John Summers and Peter Taylor, and three readers: Jenny Holton, David Harwood and Pam Saunders.
For more details, both of our church, and of the other churches, including a list of services in the current and following month, and full contact details, please see the mission community website, www.dartandavonmissioncommunity.org.uk
St Paul de Leon, Staverton
Staverton
Totnes
01803 762244
https://www.dartandavonmissioncommunity.org.uk
We warmly welcome you to St Paul de Leon Church.
In 2014 the church celebrated the 700th anniversary of the Edict of Bishop Walter de Stapledon who ordered that the Norman church be pulled down and a new more capacious building be erected. He gave the Vicar and parishioners eighteen months to complete the task under the threat of a heavy fine for failure. We do not know whether they succeeded or not, but they certainly eventually produced a church of considerable size in relation to the population. The ecclesiastical parish originally stretched from the River Dart to the outlying suburbs of Ashburton, when in the 1850s the Parish of Landscove was carved out of it. The large churchyard is a mass of snowdrops, crocuses and daffodils in the Spring.
The service pattern varies from week to week, so please click on the Services and Events tab for details.
We are part of the Dart and Avon Mission Community, which also includes:
St Luke's, Buckfastleigh
St Matthew, Landscove
St John the Baptist, Littlehempston
St George the Martyr, Dean Prior
St Petroc's, South Brent
The Blessed Vigin Mary, Rattery.
The team rector for the whole mission community is Tom Benson - please see the "get in touch" page for details. He is assisted by a ministry team consisting of team vicar Gina Radford, curate Laura McAdam, retired priests George Day, John Summers and Peter Taylor, and three readers: Jenny Holton, David Harwood and Pam Saunders.
For more details, both of our church, and of the other churches, including a list of services in the current and following month, and full contact details, please see the mission community website, www.dartandavonmissioncommunity.org.uk
Pubs in Staverton Parish
Dartbridge Inn
Totnes Road, Buckfastleigh, TQ11 0JR
(01364) 642214
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Live & Let Live Inn
A most friendly, small, cosy and comfortable pub in the lanes between Ashburton, Buckfastleigh and Staverton, that has a very good reputation for its home cooked meals, which comprise meats and poultry that are mainly locally reared where p...
Sea Trout Inn
Staverton, TQ9 6PA
(01803) 762274
palmersbrewery.com/pubs/sea-trout-inn/