Walterstone, Herefordshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"WALTERSTONE, a parish in the hundred of Ewyas-Lacy, county Hereford, 3 miles S.W. of Pontrilas railway station, and 15 S.W. of Hereford. Abergavenny is its post town. The village is situated on the river Monnow, on the borders of Monmouthshire. The soil consists of red clay. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Hereford, value £136. The church is dedicated to St. Peter or to St. Mary. The parochial charities produce about £6 per annum. Near the church is a circular moat, but no traces of any building within its enclosure. In the vicinity are two camps. There is also a farmhouse which was once the residence of Lord Burleigh, whose coat-of-arms is still to be seen in the windows."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]