ALVINGTON, Gloucestershire

Archives and Libraries

• Original source material relating to Alvington, and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives.

Gazetteers

• "ALVINGTON, a parish in the hundred of Bledisloe, in the county of Gloucester, 6 miles to the N.E. of Chepstow. Blakeney is the post town. It is situated on the river Severn. The living is a perpetual curacy united with the rectory of Wollastone, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Alvington was formerly a cell to the abbey of Llantony. Clanna House is the seat of the Hon. W. Noel, lord of the manor."
  [Description from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]