At the beginning of the 17th century it passed to the family of Sir John Popham, whose descendants sold off portions of land in the intervening years but owned Hunstrete House until 1977.

[2] Hunstrete is part of the Bathavon South Ward, which is represented by two councillors on the Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority, which has responsibilities for services such as education, refuse, tourism etc.

According to the 2001 Census, the Farmborough Ward (which includes Compton Dando, Marksbury, Woollard and Chewton Keynsham), had 1,111 residents, living in 428 households, with an average age of 44.5 years.

Of these 71% of residents describing their health as 'good', 21% of 16- to 74-year-olds had no qualifications; and the area had an unemployment rate of 1.0% of all economically active people aged 16–74.

[10] Other Grade II listed buildings in the area are a pair of mid-nineteenth-century cottages,[11] and a fragment of an arcade from an earlier large house, dating from c.1700.