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Staunton on Wye

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significant development in Staunton-on-wye in recent years is OakChurch, the local farm shop-cum-superstore. Despite its humble beginnings as a roadside shack selling strawberries and other soft fruit it has grown into a business selling everything from garden supplies to home decor. The sale of soft fruit still makes up a large portion of the business. This can be seen in the many hectares of local farmland that have been converted to polytunnels, resulting in Staunton's unglamorous nickname of Staunton-on-plastic!
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Staunton has historically been a village notorious for harbouring a shallow gene pool. This stereotype is likely to be because of an unintended after effect from the monetary legacy of G.Jarvis who bequeathed a large amount of money to the area in the 1800s. It is understood that families married
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was 213. Recently, the village has become a growth area for various forms of development, unfortunately several developments have actively sort to undermine local planning rules and neighbourhood development frameworks, which has tarnished the reputation of the village to some extent. The most
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in West Herefordshire, which is perhaps one of the most uninhabited locations of England. The parish of Staunton, which includes Moorhampton and Bredwardine, is a key player in trading in Herefordshire. The population of this parish taken at the
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close relatives in order to prevent the wealth from flowing out of the village. Still to this day, despite improvements in social mobility, it is not uncommon to find members of the village who are particularly closely related to one another.
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The village itself is fairly unusual as it has huge Victorian mansions within it. Within the medieval parish there is a small school and the
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was on crusades, and several of Herefordshire's other churches are thought to have been founded. The
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Staunton was inhabited until 1089 AD. The parish church dates from around 1190–1200, when
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Located nearby is a nature area known as The Scar, situated on the banks of the
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which was a chapel. Modernisation has replaced the windows in the 18th century
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were stolen. Two bay arcades remain from the demolished north
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52°06′N 2°55′W / 52.100°N 2.917°W / 52.100; -2.917

civil parish
2011 census
King Richard I
nave
lancet
Reformation
transept
chancel
grade I listed
River Wye
"Parish population 2011"
"Planning Applications"
"Planning Application"
"Church of St Mary, Staunton on Wye"
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Ceremonial county
Herefordshire
County of Herefordshire
Bromyard
Hereford
Kington
Ledbury
Leominster
Ross-on-Wye
List of civil parishes in Herefordshire
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