Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MALVERN WELLS

MALVERN WELLS, a chapelry in Hanley-Castle parish, Worcester; on the Worcester and Hereford railway, under the Malvern hills, 2 miles S of Great Malvern. It was constituted in 1836; it shares with Great Malvern the character of a watering-place; and it has a post office, ‡ designated Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, and a railway station. Pop. in 1861,558. Houses, 104. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Wor.ester. Value, not reported. Patron, the Rev. F. Hopkinson. The church is a modern stone edifice, with a tower; and was repaired in 1862. There are a parochial library and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Hanley Castle AP/CP       Worcestershire AncC
Place: Malvern Wells

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