STAUNTON-UPON-WYE is a parish and village situated on the main road from Hereford to Hay, and between the river Wye and the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon railway. It is distant 10 miles W.N.W. of Hereford, 10 S.E. of Kington, 10 E.N.E. of Hay, 13 S.W. of Leominster, 5 S.S.W. of Weobley, and about 2½ S.W. of Moorhampton station on the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon branch of the Midland railway; is in Grimsworth hundred, Weobley union and petty sessional division, Yazor polling district, and Hereford county court district. The population in 1861 was 675; in 1871, 637; inhabited houses, 145; families or separate occupiers, 157; area of parish, 2,320 acres; annual rateable value, £3,800. Captain Thomas William James Downes (who is lord of the manor) and Sir Henry Geers Cotterell, Bart., are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey; subsoil, sandy and gravelly; chief crops, wheat, barley, beans, peas, roots, fruit, and hops. Staunton is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Weobley; living, a rectory; net value, about £350 (arising wholly from 324 acres of land in lieu of tithe), with residence; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford; rector, Rev. Henry Wright Phillott, M.A., late student of Christ Church, Oxford, who was instituted in 1850, and is also prælector and prebendary of Hereford cathedral, and rural dean of Weobley.

The church, dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, is an ancient stone edifice, chiefly in the Transition style; it has nave, chancel (rebuilt in 1720), porch on south side, and a shingle-covered spire with six bells. The chancel was thoroughly repaired, the gallery removed, tower opened, nave reseated, the church warmed with Haden's apparatus, and various repairs and improvements executed in 1861-62, at a cost of about £600. An organ was erected in 1863. The ceiling of the nave was removed, and the roof opened to the rafters in 1867. The reredos was painted in 1868. The bells were repaired and rehung in 1873, by Messrs. White, of Appleton, near Abingdon. Open seats were completed, and other improvements made in 1875, at a cost of £150, chiefly defrayed by the rector. The earliest register is dated 1677. A beautiful view of the surrounding country may be obtained from the churchyard. The Primitive Methodist chapel was erected in 1867. This parish partakes, with Bredwardine and Letton, in the proceeds of Jarvis' Charity, the income of which arises chiefly from the dividends on about £76,000 stock and landed property.

The charity consists of money left by G. Jarvis, Esq., A.D. 1790, and since increased by accumulation and falling in of legacies. The present income is about £2,400 per annum, and is distributed, according to a chancery scheme of 1852, in proportions of 13, 11, and 6, among inhabitants of Bredwardine, Staunton-upon-Wye, and Letton, respectively. The objects to which it is applied are: (1) Payment of a medical officer, supply of medical necessaries, and relief of the poor in sickness; (2) Maintenance in two almshouses, in the parish of Staunton, of six poor men and six women; (3) Contribution to clothing and coal clubs; (4) Permanent relief of sundry aged and infirm persons; (5) Maintenance of schools, and clothing of many of the children in each of the three parishes. The present trustees are the Bishop of the diocese, and the Incumbents of the three parishes, ex officio. Besides these, Sir H.G. Cotterell, Bart., Rev. Sir G.H. Cornewall, Bart., Rev. G.H. Davenport, B. Haigh Allen, Esq., J.H. Griffiths, Esq., J. Freeman Blisset, Esq., and W.S. Broadwood, Esq. The Medical Officer is P.B. Giles, Esq., M.R.C.S. Clerk and Storekeeper, Mr. W.R. Clarke. The number of children (boys, girls, and infants) under instruction at Staunton is about 150, viz., 90 boys and girls, and 60 infants. The children from Monnington also attend this school. The medical officer and clerk to the trustees of the charity have residences at Staunton.