Colwall is a civil parish in Herefordshire, England, situated on the border with Worcestershire, nestling on the western side of the Malvern Hills at the heart of the AONB.
Areas of the village are known as Colwall Stone, Upper Colwall which shares a common border at the Wyche Cutting with the Malvern suburb of Malvern Wells, and Colwall Green, spread along 2 miles (3.2 km) of the B4218 road, with the historic village core (at the parish church) being 1 mile (1.6 km) to the west of Colwall Stone.
Colwall, sits next to Malvern, in the Domesday Book it was Colewelle, probably meaning Cool Well or Spring and this water source would make Colwall famous.
First bottled in 1851 and sold as Malvern Soda by 1856 it was marketed as Malvern Seltzer Water, in 1890 Schweppes entered into a contract with the land owners and a bottling plant was built in 1892.
At the time it was described as “being famous for containing nothing at all”.
Our pictures this week are taken from the Facebook group Herefordshire Remembered with their kind permission.
If you have any old photographs please email them to matthew.holmes@newsquest.co.uk
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