Description

Alvington, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, on the estuary of the Severn, and the Newnham and Chepstow road, 1 1/2 mile N of Woolastone station, and 2 1/2 miles SW of Lydney station on the G.W.R., with a post and telegraph office under Lydney, which is the money order office. Acreage, 1582, of which 8 are water; population, 408. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the rectory of Woolastone, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The ancient church was a cell to Llanthony Abbey, and was restored in 1858. Clanna Falls, about a mile distant from the village is the seat of the lord of the manor.