Colwall, Herefordshire Family History Guide

Colwall is an Ancient Parish in the county of Herefordshire.

Other places in the parish include: North Hill.

Status: Ancient Parish

Parish church: St. James

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1651
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1660

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Parishes adjacent to Colwall

Mathon, Worcestershire
Wellington Heath
Coddington
Mathon St James, Worcestershire
Little Malvern, Worcestershire
Malvern Wells, Worcestershire
Ledbury
Welland, Worcestershire

Historical Descriptions of Colwall

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COLWALL, a parish in Ledbury district, Hereford; under the Malvern Hills, and on the Worcester and Hereford railway, 3¾ miles NE by N of Ledbury. It has a station on the railway, and a post office, of the name of Colwall-Green, under Malvern. Acres, 3, 771. Real property, £5, 714. Pop., 1,628. Houses, 290. The surface shares the scenery of the Hereford beacon on the Malvern Hills. A gold circlet, set with stones, was found, in 1850, at Wind's point. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £540. Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. The church is decorated English, with a castellated tower; and contains some brasses and monuments. A school has £35 from endowment; and other charities £33.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Bankrupts

Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.

Poole Thomas, Colwell, Herefordshire, dealer and Chapman, Dec. 26, 1826.

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Administration

County: Herefordshire
Civil Registration District: Ledbury
Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
Diocese: Hereford
Rural Deanery: Frome
Poor Law Union: Ledbury
Hundred: Radlow
Province: Canterbury