Bolstone, Herefordshire - Kelly's Directory, 1856

Extract from Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1856

Transcription by Richard Lane © 2002

BOULSTONE.

Boulstone is a township, small Parish, and straggling village, distant 7 miles south-east from Hereford, 10 miles north- west from Ross by the turnpike road, and 1½ miles south-west of Holme Lacy station, on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester railway, 141½ miles from London, in Wormelow Hundred, Hereford Union, archdeaconary and bishopric, and deanery of Irchenfield and situated about 1 mile from the old Ross road. The church, a small stone building, consists of nave and chancel, with a low tower having two bells. The living is a curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Holme Lacy, and is valued at £543 yearly, without residence, and in the patronage of Sir Edwin Francis Scudamore Stanhope, Bart.; the Rev. Francis Lewis, M.A., is the incumbent; the Rev. Burkerley Lionel Scudamore Stanhope, curate. The population of this parish, in 1851, was 52, and the number of acres 657. Sir Edwin Francis Scudamore Stanhope, Bart., of Holme Lacy, is Lord of the manor and also chief land owner.

   Catson, Killforge, Withybed, The Tump, and Dewchurch Beacon, are all places here.

TRADERS

Farr Robert, Farmer, Boulstone Court.

Garrold Thomas, Farmer, Killforge.

Lane, Henry, Farmer, Dewchurch Barn.

Moxley, John, Wood dealer.

Ravenhill, William, Carpenter, Withybed.

Ruff, William, Carpenter and Parish Clerk, The Moor.

Walker, William, Wheelwright.

   Letters through Holme Lacy. The nearest money order office is at Hereford.

[Transcribed by Richard Lane in December 2002
from a copy of Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1856 in Hereford Central Library]