Bolstone, Herefordshire - Trade Directory, 1863

Extract from Trade Directory of Herefordshire, 1863

BOLSTONE.

BOULSTONE is a small parish and straggling village, distant 7 miles south-east from Hereford, 10 north-west from Ross by the turnpike road, and 2½ south-west from Holme Lacy Station on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway, and 141½ from London, in the upper division of Wormelow hundred, Hereford union, county court district, archdeaconry and bishopric, and deanery of Archenfield, situated about 1 mile from the old Ross Road. The church is a small stone building, consisting of nave chancel, with a low tower having 2 bells. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of Ballingham, in the patronage of Sir Edwyn Francis Scudamore Stanhope, Bart.; the Rev. Francis Lewis, M.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford, is the curate. The population of the parish in 1861 was 61; The number of acres 657. Sir Edwyn Francis Scudamore Stanhope, Bart., of Holme Lacy, is Lord of the Manor and chief landowner.

   CATSON, KILLFORGE, WITHYBED, THE TUMP, and DEWCHURCH BEACON, are places here.

   Parish Clerk, Jonathan Greenway.

COMMERCIAL
Garrold Richard, farmer, Killforge	Prosser Jacob, farmer, Boulstone Court
Lane Henry, farmer, Dewchurch Barn	Walker William, wheelwright

   Letters through Hereford via Holme lacy. The nearest money order Office is at Hereford

[Transcribed by Richard Lane in December 2002
from an original edition of this 1863 Trade Directory in Hereford Central Library]