Dorstone, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Dorstone, a village, two townships, and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands on the river Dore, 6 miles E of Hay. It has a station on the Golden Valley railway, and a post and money order office under Peterchurch (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Hay. The townships are Bage and Pow-mine, and lie around the village. The parish comprises 5376 acres; population, 417. A stone column, called Arthur's Stone, thought by some to be Druidical, crowns a hill near the village, and is seen at a considerable distance. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £408 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1889, in the Early English style. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Herefordshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Dorstone St. Peter | |
Hundred | Webtree | |
Poor Law union | Hay | |
Registration district | Hay | 1837 - 1934 |
Registration district | Hereford | 1934 - 1974 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Dorstone from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Dorstone (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Dorstone 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: