Place:Bolstone, Herefordshire, England

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NameBolstone
Alt namesBoulstonesource: Family History Library Catalog
TypeChapelry, Civil parish
Located inHerefordshire, England
See alsoWormelow Hundred, Herefordshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Hereford Rural, Herefordshire, Englandrural district 1894-1974
South Herefordshire District, Hereford and Worcester, Englanddistrict municipality 1974-1998
Herefordshire District, Herefordshire, Englandunitary authority since 1998
source: Family History Library Catalog


the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Bolstone is a very small village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, 9 km (5.6 mi) south of Hereford. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 34.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Bolstone from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"BOULSTONE, or Bolstone, a parish in the [registration] district and county of Hereford; adjacent to the Monmouth and Hereford railway, and to the river Wye, 1¼ mile S by W of Holme Lacy [railway] station, and 5½ SSE of Hereford. Post Town: Holme-Lacy, under Hereford. Acres: 657. Real property: £812. Population: 61. Houses: 13. The property is not much divided. The manor belongs to Sir E. F. Stanhope, Bart. The living is a [perpetual] curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Holme-Lacy, in the diocese of Hereford. The church has a square tower, and is good."

Research tips

  • Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre, Fir Tree Lane, Rotherwas, Hereford HR2 6LA is where paper and microfilm copies of all records for Herefordshire are stored. The Archives Centre has a website where the index to the archives (and also the wills catalog) can be searched. One item in the catalog is List of all Herefordshire parish register and bishops transcripts holdings which is a PDF file with information provided in an old version of Excel.

Online sources which may also be helpful:

  • GENUKI gives pointers to other archive sources as well as providing some details on each parish in the county. The emphasis here is on ecclesiastical parishes (useful before 1837)
  • A listing of all the Registration Districts in England and Wales since their introduction in 1837 and tables of the parishes that were part of each district and the time period covered with detailed notes on changes of parish name, mergers, etc. Do respect the copyright on this material.
  • The FamilySearch Wiki for Herefordshire provides a similar but not identical series of webpages to that provided by GENUKI
  • A Vision of Britain through Time has a group of pages of statistical facts for almost every parish in the county
  • Unfortunately, only one volume on Herefordshire has been published in the Victoria County History series. British History Online have produced a series of Ordnance Survey first edition maps for the county which may be helpful for mid-nineteenth century inquiries
  • Ancestry.co.uk lists its collections of Herefordshire genealogical material.
  • FindMyPast collections of historical records can be searched for Herefordshire. They have collections of parish records for the pre-1837 period.