Staple Fitzpaine is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated five miles (eight kilometres) south of Taunton.

The parish (by area the second-largest in Somerset) stretches south to Castle Neroche, east to Whitty Cross, west to Staple Hill and north to just past Smokey Bottom.

Curland and Bickenhall, two smaller villages close by to the east, are socially and culturally one with Staple Fitzpaine.

They are called devilstones and are said to have been thrown by the Devil from Castle Neroche (some went over Staple to land in the Witch Lodge area, another he tossed back over his shoulder into West Buckland).

The Old English word "Stapol" means pillar or post and it is thought likely that this gave the village the first part of its name.

From 1894-1974, for local government purposes, Staple Fitzpaine was part of Taunton Rural District.

[5] It is also part of the Taunton and Wellington county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.