Walterstone

Human settlement in England
Walterstone is located in Herefordshire
Walterstone
Walterstone
Location within Herefordshire
Area1.94 sq mi (5.0 km2)Population97 (Parish)[1]• Density50/sq mi (19/km2)OS grid referenceSO340250• London124 miles (200 km) ESECivil parish
  • Walterstone
Unitary authority
  • Herefordshire
Ceremonial county
  • Herefordshire
Region
  • West Midlands
CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townHEREFORDPostcode districtHR2Dialling code01873PoliceWest MerciaFireHereford and WorcesterAmbulanceWest Midlands UK Parliament
  • Hereford and South Herefordshire
List of places
UK
England
Herefordshire
51°55′08″N 2°57′40″W / 51.919°N 2.961°W / 51.919; -2.961

Walterstone (Welsh: Alt-yr-Ynys) is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, near the Welsh border and the Brecon Beacons National Park, 14 miles (23 km) south-west of Hereford.[2] The parish had a population of 97 in the 2001 UK Census[1] and is grouped with Craswall, Llanveynoe and Longtown to form Longtown Group Parish Council for administrative purposes.[3]

There is a motte-and-bailey castle in the village to the west of St Mary's church and an Iron Age hill fort on high ground two-thirds of a mile (1.1 km) to the east.[4] The River Monnow and the Welsh Marches railway line share a valley south-east of the village.[2]

Allt Yr Ynys, a Grade II listed[5] 16th-century manor house 1+1⁄4 miles (2.0 km) south of the village, has been a country house hotel.[4][6] The Grade II listed[7] parish church of St Mary is part of the Ewyas Harold group of parishes. In the chancel, there is early 17th-century stained-glass depicting the quartered arms of the Cecils, brought from the nearby Allt Yr Ynys. The churchyard cross is listed Grade II*.[8]

The 300-year-old village pub, the Carpenter's Arms, is situated next to the church[9] and has been in the same family for the last 100 years.[10]

In the 18th century, a Roman mosaic was reported to have been found in the parish. The exact site is not known but is thought to be in the Coed-y-Grafel area north of the village.[11]

In the 1870s the Imperial Gazetteer recorded the area of the village as 1,241 acres (502 ha) with a population of 173.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b "Population of Herefordshire Parishes, 2001" (pdf). Herefordshire Council. 2004. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
  2. ^ a b Brecon Beacons National Park - Eastern Area (Explorer Maps) (A3 ed.), Ordnance Survey, 2010, ISBN 978-0-319-24054-0
  3. ^ "List of Parish Councils and Contacts" (xls). Herefordshire Council. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
  4. ^ a b Pevsner, Nikolaus (1963). The Buildings of England - Herefordshire. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. p. 308. ISBN 978-0-300-09609-5.
  5. ^ Historic England. "Allt Yr Ynys, Walterstone (1078161)". National Heritage List for England.
  6. ^ "Allt Yr Ynys Country Hotel - About us". Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  7. ^ Historic England. "Church of St Mary (1051663)". National Heritage List for England.
  8. ^ Historic England. "Churchyard cross in St Mary's churchyard (1016132)". National Heritage List for England.
  9. ^ Deeley, Nigel W. "The Carpenters Arms - Walterstone, Herefordshire HR2 0DX". www.thecarpentersarmswalterstone.com. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  10. ^ "Carpenter's Arms in Walterstone notches up another success". Hereford Times. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  11. ^ "Roman 'pavement', Coed-y-Grafel, Walterstone". Herefordshire Through Time. Herefordshire Council. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  12. ^ "GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Walterstone in Herefordshire". Retrieved 28 July 2018.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Walterstone.
  • Walterstone, GENUKI genealogy web portal
  • List of monuments in the parish
    • Please note that most of the sites are on private property and are not open to the public
  • St Mary's Church