COLVA, a parochial chapelry in the hundred and county of RADNOR, SOUTH WALES, 9 miles (E. by N.) from Builth, containing
233 inhabitants. This place, which is situated on the river Edwy, and on the road leading from Kington to Builth, appears
to have been formerly only a hamlet, or chapelry, within the parish of Glftscomb, in the church of which the inhabitants
had pews appropriated to their use: it is still, together with Rulen, partially dependent upon that parish, as the
inhabitants of both contribute to the repairs of the church of Gliiscomb; but hi all civil matters they are independent
parishes. Colva, in the king's books, is described as a chapel to Gliscomb, of the certified value of £10: the great
tithes of the whole are an impropriation belonging to the Bishop of St. David's, and the vicar of Glitscomb receives the
small tithes of each, holding both Colva and Rulen by the same presentation, institution, and induction, as Glbscomb. The
chapel of Colva, like the church of Gliscomb, is dedicated to St. David. The chapelry contains nine hundred acres of
enclosed, and one thousand acres of unenclosed, land: it is chiefly of a hilly character, and the soil is not very
productive. The greater part is the property of the crown, but there is a small manor belonging to the owner of Harpton
Court. A farm called Ty 'n y Waun, in the parish of Llandeglay, in this county, was purchased with the amount of
benefactions made by Evan and Ann Griffiths, in 1721, and is now let for £18 per annum, which is equally divided among the
poor of Colva, Llandeglay, and Llanvihangel Nant Melan. The late Mr. James Chambers, of this place, also bequeathed £60,
since laid out in mortgage on a tenement in the parish of Kington, in Herefordshire, producing £3 per annum, which is
distributed in bread among the poor of Colva, at Easter and Christmas. The average annual expenditure for the support of
the poor is £213. 4.