Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TINTERN-PARVA

TINTERN-PARVA, a parish, with a village, in Chepstow district, Monmouth; on the river Wye, 4½ miles N of Chepstow r. station. Post town, Tintern-Abbey, under Chepstow. Acres, 827. Real property, £1,202. Pop., 335. Houses, 79. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £162. Patron, the Rev. R. V. Hughes. The church includes some Norman fragments, but has been defaced by modern alterations.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Tintern AP/CP       Chepstow RegD/PLU       Monmouthshire AncC
Place: Tintern

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