 The manor features in the Domesday Book of 1086 and this recorded a notably large population of the manor, indeed the greatest in the county measured by number of households, as well as the fourth-greatest monetary value.The Book also recorded the presence of a church and 2 priests.At the time Stanton came within the Saxon hundred of Culvestan, which was replaced during the reign of Henry I and the parish then came within the new Munslow hundred.