Bolstone, Herefordshire - Kelly's Directory, 1879

Extract from Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1879

BOLSTONE.

BOULSTONE is a parish and straggling village 8 miles south east from Hereford, 9 north-west from Ross by the turnpike road, 2½ south-west from Holme Lacy Station on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway, in the Upper division of Wormelow hundred, Hereford union and county court district, rural deanery of Archenfield and archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford, situated about one mile east from the Old Ross Road and bounded on the east by the River Wye. The church is a small stone building, chiefly in the Norman style, and was almost entirely rebuilt at its restoration in 1877, the ancient features being preserved: it consists of chancel and nave, with a low tower having 2 bells. The register dates from the year 1758. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of Ballingham, yearly value £84, in the gift of Sir Henry Edwyn Chandos Scudamore-Stanhope, bart., and held by the Rev. Alexander George Jones, B.A. of Queen's College, Cambridge. Sir Henry Edwyn Chandos Scudamore-Stanhope, bart., of Holme Lacy, who is lord of the manor, R. H. Garrold, esq., and J. Stallard, esq., are chief landowners. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and beans. The area is 657 acres; rateable value, £695; the population in 1871 was 55.

   KILLFORGE, three-quarters of a mile, Withybed, half a mile, and Dewchurch Barn 1½ miles, are places here.

   Parish Clerk.- James Smith

   Letters through Ross, via Ballingham. The nearest money order office is Hoarwithy.

Carter James, farmer, Ganna Farm	Smith James, wheelwright
Dallow Thomas, farmer, Killforge Farm	Walker James, farmer, The Moor
Froggatt Henry Francis, farmer & surveyor to South Hereford Highway Board, Boulstone Court

[Transcribed by Richard Lane in January 2003
from a copy of Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1879 in Hereford Central Library]