BOULSTON, otherwise BULSTON, a parish, in the hundred of DUNGLEDDY, county of PEMBROKE, SOUTH WALES, 3 miles (S. E. by S.)
from Haverfordwest, containing 302 inhabitants. This parish was for many generations the residence of the ancient family
of the Wogans, by whom the church is supposed to have been originally built. It is pleasantly situated on the banks of the
river Cleddau, and the surrounding scenery, which in some parts is richly wooded, is pleasingly and agreeably diversified.
Culm abounds in the parish, but it has not been worked; and a vein of iron-ore has been discovered, but no preparations
for procuring it have been made. The living is a donative, in the patronage of Robert Innes Acland, Esq. The church is an
ancient structure, ornamented on the outside with the arms of the family of Wogan, above the chancel window, and contains
several monuments to different members of that family. There are several tumuli in the parish, one of which was opened by
Mr. Fenton, in his tour through this county, and found to contain a rudely-formed kilt, in which were some human bones
half calcined, intermixed with pieces of charcoal. Some of the remains of the ancient family mansion of the Wogans, on the
bank of the river, are still preserved, as a picturesque ruin, in the beautiful grounds of an elegant mansion, the seat of
R. I. Acland, Esq. The average annual expenditure for the maintenance of the poor amounts to £71. 16.