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 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.

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.

Later were listed a gamekeeper, a gardener, a farm bailiff, and a farmer who was a breeder of registered shire and hackney horses.

[18] Staunton on Arrow is represented in the UK parliament as part of the North Herefordshire constituency, held by the Conservative Party since 2010 by Bill Wiggin.

In 1974 Staunton on Arrow became part of the now defunct Leominster District of the county of Hereford and Worcester, instituted under the 1972 Local Government Act.

Adjacent parishes are Combe at the north, Byton at the north-east, Rodd, Nash and Little Brampton at the north-west, Pembridge at the south and east, and Titley at the west.

The parish is rural, of farms, fields, managed woodland and coppices, water courses, lakes, isolated and dispersed businesses, and residential properties, the village of Staunton on Arrow, and the hamlets of Burcher, Stansbatch and Horseway Head.

There are two adopted minor highways—maintained by the local council—both west to east and linking from the B4533 to Pembridge, the northern route running through Stansbatch, the southern from Burcher through Horseway Head and Staunton on Arrow village.

A farther route to the west of the village runs north-east from Stansbatch, along the south-east edge of Wapley Hill, to Combe Moor.

Other routes include country lanes, bridleways, woodland walks, footpaths, and private farm tracks.

[23][22][28][29][30] The Anglican parish church of St Peter's, in Staunton on Arrow village, is in the 31-parish Kington and Weobley Deanery of the Diocese of Hereford.

In the west of the parish is a holiday home, an excavator screening bucket supplier, and an online clothing & accessories business.

The three-stage (floor) west tower, with six bells and with a clock on its north face, is buttressed and with an embattled parapet.

[38][39][40][41][42] 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.

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.

[38][47] 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.

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.