It is in the Meon Valley where it cuts through the Middle Chalk of the South Downs, Old Winchester Hill is at the edge of the parish to the east.

Flint implements found near Old Winchester Hill suggest that the area that is now the parish of Meonstoke was inhabited over 20,000 years ago.

[2] It is possible that Borough English or ultimogeniture the tradition of inheritance by the last-born of a parent's estate, which was recorded in the village as late as 1801, began with the Meonwara.

The former Meon Valley Railway passed to the east of the village but the planned station and yard at Meonstoke were never built.

[6] These included the addition in 1906 of a memorial window by Mary Lowndes, a leading light in the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Rectors of the parish have included: Thomas Chaundler, Christopher Bainbridge, Lawrence Humphrey, John Harris and Laurence Henry Woolmer.

The Grade II Listed Meonstoke House is described as "Late C18, with mid C19 extensions at each side...[and a] C20 porch of classical style".