Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FAWLEY

FAWLEY, a township in Fownhope parish, Hereford; on the river Wye, and on the Hereford and Gloucester railway, 4 miles NNW of Ross. It has a station on the railway; and it forms a curacy with Fownhope. Pop., 57. Fawley Court was the seat of the Kyrles; one of whom was the "Man of Ross." The church is old.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Fownhope CP/AP       Herefordshire AncC
Place: Fawley

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