BOUGHROOD, or Bachrhyd, a parish in the district of Hay and county of Radnor; on the river Wye, with a station on the Builth railway, 7 miles WSW of Hay. Post Town, Llyswen, under Hereford. Acres, 1,633. Real property, £1,986. Pop., 292. Houses, 57. The property is all in one estate. Boughrood Castle, on the site of an ancient baronial fortalice, of which slight vestiges remain, is the seat of W. de Winton, Esq. The scenery is wooded, romantic, and picturesque. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. David's. Value, £213. Patron, the Bishop of St. David's. The church is good. R. Powell, a native, was vicar; and founded, at Brecon, a charity which has £262 a year.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))