BRIDSTOW, a parish in the lower division of the
hundred of WORMELOW, county of HEREFORD, 1 mile
(W. N.W.) from Ross, containing 541 inhabitants. The
living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £9., 3. 11.,
and in the patronage of the Bishop of Hereford. Th6
church, is dedicated to St. Bridget. Wilton castle, the
ruins of which constitute an interesting object on the
western bank of the Wye, in this neighbourhood, was
anciently the baronial residence of the noble family of
Grey, who assumed their title from this place: it was
burnt by order of the royalist governor at Hereford,
during the parliamentary war, and the walls are now
overspread with ivy.