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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Herefordshire | |
Hundred | Wormelow | |
Poor Law union | Hereford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
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Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Boulstone or Bolstone from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Boulstone or Bolstone are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Herefordshire newspapers online: