Staunton upon Wye, Herefordshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"STAUNTON-UPON-WYE, a parish in the hundred of Grimsworth, county Hereford, 9 miles N.W. of Hereford, its post town, and 10 from Kington. The village is situated on the road from Hereford to Hay and Breen, near the river Wye, and is chiefly agricultural. The land is partly in common. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford, value £340, in the patronage of Christ Church College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, is an ancient structure, with a spired tower and six bells. The charities consist of the interest of £100,000, bequeathed in 1790 by G. Jarvis, Esq., for the schools, poor, &c., of the parishes of Staunton, Bredwardine, and Letton. This charity was revised in 1852 by Act of Parliament, which vested its management in 12 trustees, including, ex-officio, the Bishop of Hereford, and the three incumbents."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]