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
Parish Records
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England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
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England and Wales Census, 1891
England and Wales Census, 1901
England and Wales National Register, 1939
Probate and Court Records
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Military Records
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