Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COLVA

COLVA, a parochial chapelry in Presteigne district, Radnor; on the river Edwy, near the Central Wales railway, 5½ miles SW of New Radnor. Post town, New Radnor. Acres, 2, 293. Real property, £1, 709. Pop., 185. Houses, 31. The property is subdivided. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Glascombe, in the diocese of St. Davids. The church is tolerable.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parochial chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Presteigne PLU/RegD       Radnorshire AncC
Place: Colfa

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