Boughrood

BOUGHROOD is a parish in the county of Radnor, with a station on the Cambrian railway, 7 miles south-by-west from Hay, and 5 north-by-west from Talgarth, in the hundred and petty sessional division of Painscastle, Hay union and county court district, and in the rural deanery of Hay, archdeaconry of Brecon, and diocese of St. David's. The church of St. Cynog is a building of stone, in the Decorated style, restored and partly rebuilt during the period 1850-60, and consists of chancel, nave, with one aisle, south porch, and a tower with spire, containing 3 bells; there are two stained windows, and the church affords 130 sittings. The register dates from 1689. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £248, average £183, net value £160, with 4½ acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of St. David's, and held since 1882 by the Rev. Jackson Taylor M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel. The charities include £25 from the trustees of the Boughrood Charity, founded in 1687, for apprenticing boys, and £1 4s. from John's Charity for the second poor of the parish. Boughrood Castle, the property of Walter de Winton esq. J.P. is a fine modern mansion, erected close to the remains of the old castle, and is now occupied by Mrs. Bold. Walter de Winton esq. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is red sandstone, chief crops, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 1,679 acres of land and 43 of water; rateable value £2,157; the population in 1891 was 227.

Letters are delivered from Llyswen R.S.O. Breconshire, at 9 a.m. & collected from a Wall Letter Box. at 5.30 p.m, Nearest money order office at Glasbury, and telegraph office at Three Cocks Junction

National School (mixed), built in 1851, for 60 children; average attendance, 27

Railway Station, Cambrian, H. Blayney, station master