Description
Hewelsfield, a parish in West Gloucestershire, 3 miles from the Woolaston station on the G.W.R., 5 from Lydney, 6 from Chepstow, 7 from Coleford, and 9 from Monmouth. Post town, Coleford; money order and telegraph office, St Briavels. Acreage, 1592; population, 409. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £78 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church, dedicated to St Mary Magdalene. is of the 12th century, consists of nave, N transept, and chancel, with central dove-cot tower, five bells, and has been admirably restored, Hewish, a tithing in Crewkerne parish, Somerset, 1 1/2 mile SW of Crewkerne.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
