Staunton on Arrow Herefordshire Family History Guide

Status: Ancient Parish

Alternative names: Stanton on Arrow, Stanton upon Arrow

Parish church: St Peter

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1558
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1642

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Adjacent Parishes

Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STANTON-UPON-ARROW, a parish in the district of Presteigne and county of Hereford; 1¾ mile WNW of Pembridge r. station. It has a post-office, designated Stanton-upon-Arrow, Herefordshire. Acres, 2,925. Real property, £1,167. Pop., 387. Houses, 69. The manor, with S. Park, belongs to J. King, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £220. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was rebuilt in 1854. There is a parochial school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

STANTON-UPON-ARROW (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Kington, partly in the hundred of Stretford, but chiefly in that of Wigmore, county of Hereford, 5½ miles (E. N. E.) from Kington; containing 376 inhabitants, and comprising an area of 2925 acres. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £5. 7. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown; appropriator, the Bishop of Hereford. The appropriate tithes have been commuted for £120, the impropriate for £52, and the vicarial for £225; the glebe comprises 35 acres.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848