Held at: | Hereford Public Library |
Reference: | Local and Trade Directories H/914.244 |
Source: | Original document |
Title: | Kelly’s Directory of Herefordshire |
Place name: | Craswall |
Date: | 1905 |
Description:
Trades and professions named in Craswall include:
Beer retailer: David Watkins |
Curate: Reverend Pendarves George Kekewich [since 1904] |
Innkeeper: Thomas Gane [Bulls Head Inn] |
Miller: Thomas Davies [Cwm Mill] |
Schoolmaster: Roderick Armstrong |
Shopkeeper: Emma Davies |
Property named includes:
Cole, | Sidney | Rhwynford |
Davies, | Thomas | Cwm Mill |
Gane, | William | College Farm |
Gane, | Jane | Court farm |
Gilbert, | David | White Haywood |
Jenkins, | Aaron | Tan House |
Jenkins, | John | Black Hill |
Jenkins, | Oscar | Lower Black Hill |
Jenkins, | Moses | Munkleys |
Jones, | Elijah | Forest Mill |
Jones, | Samuel | New Forest |
Jones, | John | Upper House |
Lewis, | William | The Birches |
Maddy, | James | White Oak |
Meredith, | Robert | Dukes farm |
Morris, | James | Chapel house |
Mountford, | John | Rocky fold |
Mountford, | Edward | The Town |
Phillips, | Gilbert | Great Black Hill |
Phillips, | David | Tyboobach |
Price, | James | Abbey farm |
Prosser, | William | Shawls |
Prosser, | Abimeleck | The Reeds |
Smith, | Vear | Cwm Steps |
Smith, | Thomas | Wern Wen |
Watkins, | Henry | Gouldevain |
Watkins, | Arthur | Llandraw |
Watkins, | Henry | Llanover |
Watkins, | Henry | Old House |
Watkins, | William | Old Mill |
Watkins, | James | The Coed |
Watkins, | George | The Rood |
Watkins, | George | Upper Cwm |
Winston, | John | Coed Major |
Winston, | John | Crasswall Court |
Yeomans, | Peter | Cwm |
Yeomans, | William | Middle Blackhill |
An image of the full 1905 Kelly’s Directory entry for Craswall is given below.
Observations:
Local farmers are named. The area, population, rateable value, main crops, geology, county court and other details of the Parish are given. There is a public elementary school and two Primitive Methodist chapels. Principal landowners are Henry Randolph Trafford [Lord of the Manor] and Philip Williams Esq. of Hinstock Hall, Salop. The church was restored in 1883, and there is a cockpit on the north side where ‘in the early part of this century cockfights were held on Sundays after service’. The school was built in 1876 for 90 children; average attendance 31.
This directory is not comprehensive in its coverage of all farms and commercial premises in the parish at the time. Also, in the transcribed lists of properties that are named, spellings in the original have sometimes been amended to reflect more common usage. In case of doubt please refer to the image of the original entry.
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