Place:


Colfa  Radnorshire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Colfa like this:

COLVA, a parochial chapelry in Presteigne district, Radnor; on the river Edwy, near the Central Wales railway, 5½ miles SW of New Radnor. Post town, New Radnor. Acres, 2, 293. Real property, £1, 709. Pop., 185. Houses, 31. The property is subdivided. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Glascombe, in the diocese of St. Davids. The church is tolerable.

Colfa through time

Colfa is now part of Powys district. Click here for graphs and data of how Powys has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Colfa itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Colfa, in Powys and Radnorshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4645

Date accessed: 18th May 2024


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