Description
Ballingham, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Wye, 1 1/2 mile NE of Fawley station on the G.W.R., and 8 miles NNW of Ross, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Hoarwithy. Acreage, 910 ; population, 137. A tunnel on the Great Western railway, 1200 yards long, passes through this parish. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Boulstone, in the diocese of Hereford; value, £261. Patron, the Earl of Chesterfield. The church is a small stone edifice with a spire, and was restored in 1885.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
