The immediate puzzle about the name Bridge Sollers is that it is older than any known bridge. In Domesday it is simply 'Bridge' at a time when the only possible site of a bridge across the Wye in Herefordshire would have been in the city of Hereford itself.

The explanation is likely to be that at the time that the first English speakers arrived in the area, there was an old Roman bridge standing just downstream. This bridge would have carried a road which ran south from the town of Magnis, and continued through the parish of Madley along what is known as Stoney Street. The name ‘Sollers’ came from a family associated with the church and parish of Bridge Sollers.

Bridge Sollers church is dedicated to St. Andrew.  It has a Norman west tower (unbuttressed) with Norman windows and bell openings.  The southern doorway is Norman in the style of the Herefordshire School which produced such distinctive work at Shobden and Kilpeck.

There are two arcades dating from the late 12^th century, and the chancel dates from circa 1300.  The nave dates from the mid 12^th century and the northern arcade was built and the northern aisle was added circa 1180-90 and the west tower built as part of the same phase.  Late in the 13^th century the chancel was rebuilt and circa 1330 the northern aisle was largely reconstructed.