Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Woollaston, (or Wollaston)

Woollaston.-- (or Wollaston), par. and vil. with ry. sta. (Woolaston), Gloucestershire - par., 3300 ac. land, 232 tidal water, and 1314 foreshore, pop. 866; vil., on W. bank of river Severn, 5 miles NE. of Chepstow; has the Rowley Papermill.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Woolaston AP/CP       Gloucestershire AncC
Place names: WOLLASTON     |     WOOLLASTON     |     WOOLLASTON OR WOLLASTON
Place: Woolaston

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