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Staunton on Arrow history

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Staunton derives from the Old English ‘stān’ with ‘tūn’ meaning”farmstead on stony ground, or one near a standing stone” Staunon on Arrow is a Celtic word meaning ‘swift’ The manors were in the border lands of the Welsh Marches in the Hundred of Hezetre.

19th century

In the 1850s Staunton on Arrow was directory listed as ‘Stanton-on-Arrow’. The parish was also a township, and in the Stretford and Wigmore hundreds (previously in the Hezetre hundred). It was part of the Union—poor relief and joint parish workhouse provision set up under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834—and petty sessional and county court district of Kington, and the Archdeaconry and Diocese of Hereford. The church, in “an ornamental Gothic style” “, with six bells and register dating to 1558, was constructed in 1854. The ecclesiastical parish living was a vicarage, and included a residence for the clergy, and about 35 acres (14 hectares) glebe—an area of land used to support the parish church and priest—in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, in 1856 Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth. The rectorial tithes—typically one-tenth of the produce or profits of the land given to the rector for his services—were commuted in 1841 under the 1836 Tithe Commutation Act, and were here substituted at this time with a £172 11s. yearly rent-charge payment. The two impropriators—lay persons or higher church authorities into whose personal ownership church income or property is transferred—were the Bishop of Hereford, and James King-King MP for Herefordshire who lived at Stanton Park, a house and deer park established in the 1770s to the north from Staunton on Arrow village, and the family seat of the King family. King-King was lord of the manor and, with Lady Langdale and Sir Thomas Hastings CB, was one of the chief landowners of the parish. He was also a Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant, and High Sheriff of Herefordshire, and chairman of a railway committee, incorporated in 1874, for the construction of a 12 miles (19 km) stretch of railway between Leominster and Bromyard, linking two Great Western lines. Listed are the hamlets of Horseway Head and Stanton Bach, as are the further landmarks and areas of Stanton Green, Upper Mowley, and Upper Tan House. A mixed free school, supported by voluntary donations, was erected in 1842 for 60 children. Population in 1851 was 359, within a parish area of just over 2,728 acres (1,104 hectares). Residents and occupations in the 1850s included the parish vicar, the schoolmistress of the free school, eight farmers, one of whom was also a miller, a builder, two blacksmiths, a wheelwright, carpenter, butcher, mason, shopkeeper, linen weaver, and a boot & shoe maker. In the 1880s and 1890s the parish land and subsoil is described as ‘various’. Area had risen to 2,925 acres (1,184 hectares), on which were grown wheat, barley and oats, with some land as pasture. Population was 340 in 1881, 286 in 1891, and 311 in 1911. Glebe land by the first decade of the 20th century had reduced to 4 acres (1.6 hectares). By 1890 the 1842 free school had become a mixed National School supported by subscription, and with a new classroom added, accommodating 61 children with an average attendance of 53. Following the 1902 Education Act, the school became a Public Elementary. St Peter’s Church was restored in 1900 as a commemoration to the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. The Titley to Presteigne branch of the Great Western Railway ran through the west of the parish, with its Railway Sub Office part of the parish sub post office where other mail arrived by mail cart from Leominster. The nearest money order and telegraph offices were at Pembridge and Shobden. By the early 20th century the parish post office was its own telegraph office. Staunton Court was the residence of the King-King family, who had been resident “for 300 years” and were chief landowners, and whose late 19th-century occupant, William Edward King-King was at the time a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Herefordshire. Residencies and occupations from 1880 included the local JP, the schoolmistress and her assistant mistress, the parish clerk, and the parish priest at the vicarage. There were, variously, eight to nine farmers, one of whom was also a shopkeeper & sub-postmaster, a miller, two wheelwrights, one of whom was also a shopkeeper & machinist and another, a carpenter. There were a tailor and a blacksmith at Stansbatch, a stone mason at Horseway Head, and a boot & shoe maker. Later were listed a gamekeeper, a gardener, a farm bailiff, and a farmer who was a breeder of registered shire and hackney horses.

Staunton on Arrow landmarks

There are six Grade II listed buildings in Staunton on Arrow. The Anglican parish church of St Peter (listed in 1986 and at 52°14′06″N 2°55′26″W / 52.235101°N 2.923803°W / 52.235101; -2.923803), is an 1856 rebuild of the 1853 demolished church, to the Gothic Revival Decorated style designs of Thomas Nicholson, under the auspices of James King-King of Staunton Park. The church, completed in 1860, is of sandstone and ashlar construction, and comprises a four-bay nave; a two-bay chancel with a vestry at the south; a north porch attached to the nave; and north and south transepts with chapels, the south being dedicated to the King-King family and containing a corner fireplace. The three-stage (floor) west tower, with six bells and with a clock on its north face, is buttressed and with an embattled parapet. At the north-east side of the tower is an external hexagonal stair turret which rises above the roofline of the tower. The chancel and chapels contain traceried windows in Decorated style. The font is contemporary with the building and is inset with panel tracery. At the south-east of the churchyard is a walled enclosure, originally used to house straying animals. At the north corner of the churchyard is a memorial cross to those who died in the First and Second World Wars. At the south-west of the church is a 28 feet (9 m) high, 63 feet (19 m) diameter castle mound earthwork (at 52°14′05″N 2°55′28″W / 52.234819°N 2.924328°W / 52.234819; -2.924328), surrounded by a 2 feet (0.6 m) deep ditch, the remains of a 11th- to 16th-century motte-and-bailey castle. Staunton Old Hall, 350 yards (320.0 m) north from the church (listed in 1953 and at 52°14′15″N 2°55′33″W / 52.237532°N 2.925916°W / 52.237532; -2.925916), is a late 16th- or early 17th-century farmhouse, two-storey, slate-roofed, and timber-framed with painted wattle and daub and brick infills. Windows are partly mullioned and transomed, with casements. The interior contains a 17th-century staircase. The Post Office, 100 yards (91.4 m) north from the church (listed in 1986 and at 52°14′10″N 2°55′27″W / 52.236004°N 2.924281°W / 52.236004; -2.924281), is a house dating to the 17th or early 18th century, with 19th century alterations. It is single storey with attic, and timber-framed with painted brick infills. The roof is slate with three dormer windows. Window frames are casements, except those in two ground floor bay windows which are sash. Highland (listed in 1986 and at 52°15′07″N 2°58′07″W / 52.251816°N 2.968666°W / 52.251816; -2.968666), within a farm at the north-west of the parish and south-west of Wapley Hill, is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north-west from the church. It is a 15th- to 17th-century farmhouse with 19th-century alterations, of T-plan, and of stone with stone-tiled roof, single storey with attic, and with casement windows and a canopied front entrance. Lower Mowley (listed in 1986 and at 52°14′10″N 2°57′58″W / 52.236096°N 2.966177°W / 52.236096; -2.966177), is a farmhouse at the south-west of the parish and 1.8 miles (3 km) west from the church, dating from the 17th century, with later extensions in the late 18th, and alterations in the 20th. It is timber-framed infilled with wattle and daub and part painted brick, and of five bays, two storeys with casement windows, and slate roof. The interior contains a 19th-century staircase, a room with cross-beamed ceiling and original plaster decoration. There is panelling with “circular enrichments with conventional devices, and small trees with birds in the spandrels”. On the opposite, north, side of the road is a listed 17th-century timber-framed and weatherboarded barn of four bays and an interior threshing floor.

Wapley Camp

Wapley Camp is an Iron Age hill fort in Combe Parish, Combe. It is located at 52°15′24″N 2°57′36″W / 52.256591°N 2.959933°W. The camp may have been a defensive site occupied by the Silures clans during the Roman conquest of Britain.

Staunton on Arrow geography / climate

The parish, of 2,956 acres (12.0 km), is approximately 2 miles (3 km) from north to south and 3 miles (5 km) east to west, with a 2011 population of 234 at a density of 18.58 per km2. Adjacent parishes are Combe at the north, Byton, Rodd, Nash and Little Brampton, Pembridge and Titley at the west. The parish is within, and exclusively on the northern bank of, the catchment basin of the River Arrow.

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Titley, Herefordshire Titley is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire. It lies on the B4355 between Kington and Presteigne. The name, recorded in the Domesday Book as Titelege, is Old English and apparently means “woodland clearing of a man called Titta”

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