Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CARREGHOVA

CARREGHOVA, a township in Llan-y-Mynech parish, Montgomery; on the river Vyrnwy, near Offa's Dyke and the Montgomery canal, 5½ miles SSW of Oswestry. Acres, 1,223. Real property, £3,444: of which £1,432 are in quarries, and £30 in mines. Pop., 400. Houses, 92. Limestone is extensively quarried.


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

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Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Montgomeryshire AncC
Place: Carreghofa

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