Crasswall, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Crasswall, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Clodock parish, Herefordshire, on the river Monnow, adjacent to the boundary with Breconshire, 6 miles SE of Hay, with a post office under Vowchurch (R.S.O.); money order office, Longtown; telegraph office, Hay. Acreage, 5179; population, 272. An alien priory, subordinate to Grandmont, was founded in the time of King John at what is now called the Abbey farm, and was given in the time of Edward IV. to Christ's College, Cambridge. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £57. Patron, the Vicar of Clodock. The church is ancient and small; it was restored in 1883. There are two Primitive Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Herefordshire | |
Civil parish | Clodock | |
Hundred | Ewyaslacy | |
Poor Law union | Dore |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Crasswall from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Crasswall)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Crasswall are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Herefordshire newspapers online: