BOLSTONE, or BOULSTONE, is a small parish intersected by the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester branch of the Great Western railway, and distant about 2 miles S.W. of the Holme Lacy station on that line, 7 S.S.E. of Hereford, and 8 N.W. of Ross. It is in Wormelow hundred (upper division), Fownhope polling district, Hereford union and county court district, and Harewood End petty sessional division. The population in 1861 was 61; in 1871, 55; inhabited houses, 13; families or separate occupiers, 13; area of parish, 653 acres; annual rateable value, £700. Sir Henry Edwyn Chandos Scudamore-Stanhope, Bart., is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is clayey; chief crops, wheat, barley, oats, and roots. The parish of Bolstone has been detached from Holme Lacy and united to Ballingham for ecclesiastical purposes (under 1 and 2 Vict., c.106). The living is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Archenfield; joint value, £260, including 63 acres of glebe; patron, Sir Henry E.C. Scudamore-Stanhope, Bart.; vicar, Rev. Alexander G. Jones, B.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge, who resides at the new vicarage house at Ballingham. The church stands near the farmyard of Bolstone court, and is about to be restored under the superintendence of William E. Martin, Esq., architect, of Hereford. It has nave, chancel, and low tower containing two bells. The register begins with the year 1765. The children from this parish attend the national school at Ballingham.