Colwall, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Colwall, a parish in Herefordshire, under the Malvern Hills, 4 miles NE by N of Ledbury. It has a station on the G.W.R., and a post and money order office under Malvern; telegraph office at railway station. There is another post office at Colwall-Green. Acreage, 3835; population, 1506. The Herefordshire beacon on the Malvern Hills is in the neighbourhood. A gold circlet, set with stones, was found in 1850 at Wind's Point. Hope End was the birthplace of Mrs Browning. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £411 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. The church is ancient, and contains some brasses and monuments. There are Wesleyan chapels.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Colwall from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Colwall (St. James))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Colwall are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Herefordshire newspapers online:

• Hereford Journal
• Hereford Times