Bolstone, Herefordshire - Kelly's Directory, 1913

Extract from Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1913

BOLSTONE.

BOLSTONE, or Boulstone, is a parish about one mile east from the old Ross road, and bounded on the east by the River Wye, 1½ miles north-west from Ballingham Station on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester section of the Great Western Railway, 7 south-east from Hereford and 8 north-west from Ross by the high road, in the Southern division of the county, upper division of Wormelow hundred, Hereford union and county court district, Harewood End petty Sessional division, rural deanery of Archenfield and archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. The church is a small and plain building of stone, chiefly in the Norman style, it consists of chancel, nave, north porch and a turret on the western gable containing 2 bells: The church was almost wholly rebuilt in 1877, but its ancient features were re-incorporated. The register dates from the year 1765; many entries relating to this parish are contained in the registers of Holme Lacy, the mother parish. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the rectory of Ballingham, joint net yearly value £180, in the gift of the earl of Chesterfield, and held since 1903 by the Rev. William White Fisher, B.A., L.Th., of the University of Durham, who resides in Ballingham. The Earl of Chesterfield P.C., G.C.V.O., is lord of the manor, and chief landowner. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and beans. The area is 670 acres of land and 4 of water; rateable value, £566; the population in 1911 was 43.

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

   Parish Clerk.- Gabriel Gummery

   Letters through Ross. The nearest money order office is Hoarwithy & telegraph office at Holme Lacy Railway Station, 2½ miles distant.

   Wall Letter Box cleared at 9.50 a.m. & 6 p.m.

   The children of this place attend the school at Ballingham.

Harris John, farmer, Yannah Farm	Williams Herbert Henry, farmer, Withybed
Morris John, farmer, Kilforge farm

[Transcribed by Richard Lane in January 2003
from a copy of Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1913 in Hereford Central Library]