HEWELSFIELD, a parish in the hundred of ST-BRIAVELLS,
county of GLOUCESTER, 5 miles (N.N.E.)
from Chepstow, containing 434 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Lydney,
in the archdeaconry of Hereford, and diocese of
Gloucester. The church is dedicated to St. Mary
Magdalene.