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Boulstone or Bolstone, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Boulstone or Bolstone, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, adjacent to the river Wye, 2 miles S by W of Holme-Lacy station on the G.W.R., 7 SSE of Hereford, and 9 NW of Ross, which is the post town; money order office, Hoarwithy; telegraph office, Holme-Lacy railway station. Acreage of the civil parish, 674; population, 51; of the ecclesiastical, including Ballingham, 188. The manor belongs to the Earl of Chesterfield. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Ballingham, in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £261. Patron, the Earl of Chesterfield. The church was rebuilt in 1877.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyHerefordshire 
HundredWormelow 
Poor Law unionHereford 

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

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Land and Property

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