 The population of the parish has declined greatly since the late 19th century and it now serves as a popular retirement destination with a small farming community remaining too.Murderer Robert Foulkes served as vicar of Stanton Lacy at the time of his crime, for which he was hanged in 1679.Victorian writer Annie Molyneux, later Mrs Annie Webb and then Annie Webb-Peploe, author of "Naomi; or, The last days of Jerusalem" (1841), was born in Stanton Lacy in 1806.