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.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
