[2] In 1848 the parish was in the Ross (Ross-on-Wye) Union—poor relief provision set up under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834—and in the upper division of the Hundred of Wormelow (or Weomelow).

The living was a perpetual curacy, united to that of Marstow, and endowed with tithes due to the incumbent priest, being typically one-tenth of the produce or profits of parish land.

The tithes were partly in the hands of the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, and there were about 14 acres (5.7 hectares) of rectorial glebe, being an area of land set aside to support a parish priest.

The parish was in the Ross-on-Wye county court district, again in the Ross Union, and the Harewood Petty Sessions.

Population in 1851 was 239 within a parish area of 860 acres (350 hectares) with soil of sandy loam over sandstone and rock.

Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 8th Baronet, was lord of the manor, and chief landowners were the governors of Guy's Hospital, and the gentry occupants of Pencoyd Court and Old Hall.

Those at Harewood End were shopkeeper & postmaster, licensees of the Plough Inn, and a parish clerk who was also an assistant overseer, and deputy registrar of births and deaths for the St Weonard's district of the Ross Union.

[7] In 1895 ecclesiastical structure remained as previously, but the parish was now listed in the Rural Deanery of Archenfield in the Archdeaconry and Diocese of Hereford.

It borders on the parishes of Llanwarne at the north-west, St Weonards at the south-west, Tretire with Michaelchurch at the south, Hentland at the south-east and Harewood at the north-east.

[12] Also at the south of the church is Pencoyd Court, a two-storey house dating possibly to the 17th century, and of sandstone, part stuccoed, with mid-19th-century bay windows and slate roof.

[13] To the north-east from Pencoyd Court is a sandstone dovecote, possibly early 19th century, with a slate pyramidal roof.