{{Short description|Village and parish in Herefordshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox UK place |official_name = Bridstow |coordinates = {{coord|51.920|-2.605|display=inline,title}} |country = England |static_image = St. Bridget's Church, south facade - geograph.org.uk - 520214.jpg |static_image_width = 240px |static_image_caption = St Bridget's Church, Bridstow |constituency_westminster = Hereford and South Herefordshire |post_town = ROSS-ON-WYE |postcode_district = HR9 |postcode_area = HR |dial_code = 01989 |os_grid_reference = SO 583247 |unitary_england = Herefordshire |lieutenancy_england = Herefordshire |population = 859 |population_ref = (Parish)<ref name=HFSpop /> |region = West Midlands }} '''Bridstow''' is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England,<ref name=HFSpc/> 2 km (1.2 miles) west of Ross-on-Wye and 17 km (10.6 miles) south-east of Hereford. The parish is bounded to the east and south by the River Wye. The A40 road linking the M50 motorway to South Wales runs through the parish, crossing the Wye at Bridstow Bridge.<ref name=OS/> The parish had a population of 906 in the 2011 UK census, and an estimated population of 941 in 2018.<ref>[https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/westmidlands/admin/county_of_herefordshire/E04000709__bridstow/ City Population site. Retrieved 28 May 2020.]</ref>

==Heritage== The largest village in the parish is Wilton, site of the Grade I listed Wilton Castle and Wilton Bridge.<ref name=OS /><ref name=britishlistedbuildings /> The ''Liber Llandavensis'' (Book of Llandaff) records that in 1066, Herewald, Bishop of Llandaff, appointed Guollguinn as priest there.

Wilton (as Wiltone) and Ashe Ingen (as Ascis) appear in the 1086 Domesday Book.<ref>[http://www.bosci.net/LOWV/Village%20pages%20-%20Bridstow.htm Landscape Origins of the Wye Valley. Retrieved 4 May 2020.]</ref>

The parish church, dedicated to St Bridget, has a tower in the Perpendicular style. The rest of the exterior was rebuilt in 1862 to a design by Thomas Nicholson. The stained glass is by Charles Kempe.<ref name=Pevsner/><ref name=ChurchPlans/>

===1870s=== Published in 1870–1872, John Marius Wilson's ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' describes Bridstow as "a parish in Ross district, Hereford; on the River Wye, adjacent to the Monmouth and Hereford railway,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://museumwithoutwalls.uk/the-railway-in-ross/ |title=10 The Railway in Ross |access-date=27 January 2026 |date=2026}}</ref> 1 mile W by N of Ross. Post Town, Ross. Acres, 2,199. Real property, £5,506. Pop., 717. Houses, 143. Wilton Castle here is an old seat of the Lords Grey de Wilton, burnt in the Civil Wars, and now an ivy-clad ruin. The living is a vicarage in the Diocese of Hereford. Value, £276.*{{efn|The asterisk (*) throughout the Gazetteer signifies a habitable glebe-house.<ref>Wilson, John Marius (1870). [https://archive.org/details/imperialgazettee00wils/page/n12/mode/1up ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'']. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton. p. 1.</ref> }} Patron, the Bishop of Hereford.<ref>Wilson, John Marius (1870). [https://archive.org/details/imperialgazettee00wils/page/269/mode/1up ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'']. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton, p. 269</ref>

==Amenities== Bridstow CE Primary School is a Voluntary Aided Church of England co-educational school for pupils between 4 and 11 years old. In May 2016, the school entered into a "soft federation" agreement with the school at Brampton Abbotts,<ref>Brampton school site [https://www.bramptonabbotts.org/ Retrieved 31 October 2017.]</ref> under which the two schools share a principal and some other functions.

Retail, medical and other facilities are available at Ross-on-Wye (1½ miles, 2.5 km). Accommodation is available at Bridstow Guest House, a converted Victorian house.<ref>[https://bridstowguesthouse.co.uk/ Guest house site. Retrieved 4 May 2020.]</ref> The village also has a village hall.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20111121131054/http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/communityhalls/CHD_BridstowVillageHall.aspx Herefordshire Council website].</ref>

==Transport== Bridstow has daytime bus services towards Gloucester and Hereford.<ref>[https://bustimes.org/localities/bridstow Bus Times. Retrieved 4 May 2020.]</ref> The nearest mainline railway stations are at Hereford (14 miles, 23 km) and Gloucester (18 miles, 29 km).

The A49 and A40 pass nearby, with links to the M50 motorway.

==References== ;Notes {{notelist}} ;Citations {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=HFSpop>{{Cite web |title = Population of Herefordshire Parishes, 2001 |publisher=Herefordshire Council |year=2004 |url=http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/docs/research/2001_parish_populations.pdf |format=pdf |accessdate=2010-12-04}}{{dead link |date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> <ref name=HFSpc>{{Cite web |title=List of Parish Councils and Contacts |publisher=Herefordshire Council |url=http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/docs/Copy_of_Parish_Councils_MASTER_for_Web_April_14th.xls |format=xls |accessdate=2011-05-01}}{{dead link |date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> <ref name=OS>{{Citation |title=Gloucester & Forest of Dean 162 (Landranger Maps) |publisher=Ordnance Survey |year=2011 |edition=C3 |isbn=978-0-319-22911-8}}</ref> <ref name=Pevsner>{{Cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |authorlink=Nikolaus Pevsner |title=The Buildings of England - Herefordshire |publisher=Yale University Press |date=2012 |orig-date=1963 |location=New Haven and London |pages=82 |isbn=978-0-300-09609-5}}</ref> <ref name=britishlistedbuildings>{{Cite web |title=British Listed Buildings - Bridstow |publisher=British Listed Buildings |url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/herefordshire/bridstow |accessdate=2011-05-02}}</ref> <ref name=ChurchPlans>{{Cite web |title=The Incorporated Church Building Society archive - |publisher=Church Plans Online project |url=http://www.churchplansonline.org/show_full_image.asp?resource_id=05548.tif |accessdate=2011-05-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313185054/http://www.churchplansonline.org/show_full_image.asp?resource_id=05548.tif |archivedate=2012-03-13}}</ref> }}

==External links== {{Commons category|Bridstow}} *[https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HEF/Bridstow/index.html Bridstow], GENUKI genealogy web portal *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110609145338/http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/htt/smrSearch/Monuments/Browse.aspx?Item=Period List of monuments in the parish] *[http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadAreaSearch.do?a=7&r=1&i=1001&m=0&s=1307911014562&enc=1&areaSearchText=hr9+6qf&areaSearchType=16&extendedList=true&searchAreas= Bridstow page on ONS website]

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