ALVINGTON is a village and parish, and polling place for the Western division of the county, situated on the western bank of the river Severn and the high road from Newnham to Chepstow, 9½ miles south-west from the former, 6½ miles north-east from the latter, and 2½ south west from Lydney, and 2 miles north from Woolastone station on the South Wales railway and 130 from London, in the hundred of Bledisloe, union and county court district of Chepstow, rural deanery of South Forest, archdeanery of Gloucester and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol.

The church of St. Andrew, an ancient building, restored in 1862, consists of chancel, nave, aisles, and side chapel, with a square embattled tower containing 5 bells: it contains memorial windows to the Hon. W.M.Noel and the Hon. Mrs. Noel, and one to Robert Alvey Carwin, esq. Of Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire. The register dates from the year 1688. The living is a chapelry, annexed, together with that of Lancaut, to the rectory of Woolastone, joint yearly value £640, in the gift of Samuel Stephens Marling, esq. M.P. and held b the Rev. William Somerset, LL.D., of Magdalene College Cambridge.

About a mile and a half west of the village is Clannafalls, the seat of Col. Edward Andrew Noel, D.L. late captain 31^st regiment, who is lord of the manor, and with Higford Burr, esq. the chief landowners.

The soil is gravelly; subsoil, limestone. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 2,553 acres of land. And 500 of water; rateable value, £2,894 ; the population in 1871 was 408.

Parish Clerk, George Harris.

POST OFFICE – George Harris, receiver. Letters are received through Lydney, which is the nearest money order office.

There is a school for children of both sexes, built by Higford Burr, esq., and supported by subscription; Miss Clatworthy, mistress.

[PRINCIPAL RESIDENTS]

Fenton, Major, Clanna cottage

Noel, Col. Edward Andrew D.L., J.P., Clannafalls

White, Daniel Alfred

Woodroffe John, Severn Bridge

[COMMERCIAL]

Bradford, John, farmer, Alvington crt

Edwards, John carpenter & grocer

Griffiths, Charles, farmer, Fernleze cot

Harris, George, mason & post office

Gloucestershire Paper Making Co. Limited, paper makers from wood only

(John McNiel, resident man.), Cone Mills

Harris, Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Howell, George, carrier

James, Thomas Henry, butcher, Woodmill

Lawrence, Edward, farmer

Lewis, George, carpenter & shopkeeper

Mullins, Isaac, farmer

Noble, Frank J. Papr. Ma. Rowley papr.mls

Richards, James, farmer & haulier, Colliers brook

Taylor & Co, brewers

Taylor, Thomas, farmer, Court end

Thorne, Wm. Beer retailer & blacksmith

White, Daniel Alfd., miller Alvington mill

Wintour, James, Globe Inn & farmer

Woodroffe, John, farmer, Severn lodge

Workman, Charles, shopkeeper & haulier