Wollastone, Gloucestershire

Description
Wollastone or Woolaston, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village is much scattered, and lies on the river Severn, 5 miles NE of Chepstow. It has a station on the South Wales section of the G.W.R., and a post office called Brook End, under Lydney; money order office, Lydney; telegraph office, Alvington. The parish comprises 2992 acres of land and 3 of water, with 232 of adjacent tidal water and 1314 of foreshore; population of the civil parish, 852; of the ecclesiastical, with Alvington and Laricaut, 1271. There is a parish council of five members. The living is a rectory, united with Alvington and Laricaut, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £419 with residence. The church is Norman, and was restored in 1859.