Bolstone, Herefordshire - Kelly's Directory, 1941

Extract from Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1941

Transcription by Richard Lane © 2003

BOLSTONE.
(BOULSTONE)

BOLSTONE, or Boulstone, is a parish about 1 mile east from the old Ross road and bounded on the east by the river Wye, 1.5 miles north-west from Ballingham Station on 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 Hereford division of the County, Upper division of Wormelow Hundred, Hereford Rural District and county court district, Harewood End petty sessional division, rural deanery of Ross and Archenfield and archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. The church is a small and plain building of stone chiefly in the Early English style, consisting 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: There is a tablet of white marble and alabaster erected in memory of the men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18. 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 £310, with 3 acres of glebe here and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Hereford, and held since 1932 by the Rev. William Edward Best, who resides at Ballingham. The farmers are the principle landowners. The soil and subsoil are clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 674 acres of land and inland water: the population in 1931 was 51.

   KILLFORGE, 1 mile, Withybed, half a mile, and Dewchurch Barn 1½ miles distant, are places near here.

   Letters should be addressed Holme Lacy, Hereford. The nearest M(oney) O(rder) office is Hoarwithy & T(elegraph) office is at Little Dewchurch.

COMMERCIAL

Marked thus ° farm 150 acres or over

Davies, William Randall, farmer, New House Farm (letters should be addressed to Little Dewchurch).

° Harris, Sydney, farmer, Gannah Farm.

° Watkins Brothers, farmers, Killforge Farm.

° Williams, James Winniatt, farmer, Bolstone Court.

[Transcribed by Richard Lane in January 2003
from a copy of Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1941 in Hereford Central Library]