Description:

CRASWALL, or Crasswall, is a township and small village, having its own parish officers and maintaining its own poor; it forms an ecclesiastical parish within the civil parish of Clodock, and is near the source of the river Monnow, at the foot of the Hatterell Hills, on the borders of Brecknockshire, 6 miles south-east from Hay station on the Hereford, Hay and Brecon section of the London, Midland and Scottish railway, and 16 west-by-south from Hereford, in the Hereford division of the county, Ewyas Lacy hundred, Dore and Bredwardine rural district, Dore petty sessional division, Hay county court district, rural deanery of Abbey Dore and archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. The chapel of St. Mary is an ancient edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a small wooden belfry at the west end containing one bell: it was restored in 1883: there are 56 sittings. On the north side is a disused cockpit, in which, in the early part of the last century cockfights were held on Sundays after service. The register, forming part of that of Clodock, dates from the year 1703. The living is a vicarage, united with that of Llanveynoe, joint net yearly value £345, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Clodock, and held since 1928 by the Rev. Percy Loadman, of St. Aidan's, who resides at Llanveynoe. There is a Methodist chapel here, built in 1858, seating 80, and also one at Cwm, built in 1828, seating 140. The Hatterell Hills, or Black Mountains, are in this township. R. R. W. R. Trafford esq. who is lord of the manor, and the farmers are the principal landowners. The soil is sandy loam; the sub-soil is sandstone. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and swedes. The area is 5,172 acres of land and 7 of water; the population in 1931 was 185 in the civil and of the ecclesiastical parish, 353.

Post  Office. Letters  through Abergavenny (Mon)

PRIVATE   RESIDENTS.

Watkins Mrs. The Villa

Wright Mrs. School house

COMMERCIAL.

Marked thus ° farm 150 acres or over.

Cole   Edith   (Miss),   shopkeeper.   Upper Crossway

Farr Arth. farmer, Cwm farm

Gane David, farmer, Cwm mill

Gane Eliz. (Mrs.), frmr. Craswall crt

Gane Ernest, farmer, The Oaks

Gane Mary Ann (Mrs.), smallholder, Rose cottage

Gane Wilfred Jas. farmer, The Road

Gane Wm. farmer, College farm

Gane Wm. David, farmer, Pentwyn

Gwilliam   Thos.   Wm.   farmer,   Llanover

Howells Alfd. farmer, Little Black Hill

Howells Enoch Wm. farmer, The Town

Hughes Hannah, farmer, The Rock

Jenkins John E. frmr.  Dukes farm

Jenkins Morgan, farmer, Middle Black Hill

Jones Elijah, farmer, Forest mill

Jones John, farmer, Upper house

Jones Jn. Edwd. farmer, New Forest

Jones Sarnl. farmer, White Haywood

Maddy Arth. farmer, Old house

Phillips Jsph. farmer, Coed Major

Powell Edwin, frmr. Lower Black Hill

Price Albt. farmer, Gworlodefain

°Price Jas. farmer, Abbey farm

Pritchard Edgar Edwd.  smallholder, Little Black Hill

Prosser Rt. & Emma, farmers, Abraham Reeds

Prosser Wm. farmer, Upper Black Hill

Prothero David, farmer, Chapel house

Russell Jas. farmer, Cwm steps

Sanders Jsph. farmer, Lower house

Saunders Raymond, farmer,Llandraw

Smith Thos. farmer, The Coed

Smith Thos. farmer, Wern Wen

Watkins Arth. farmer, Tyboobach

Watkins David, farmer, Upper Cwm

Watkins Geo. smallholder. The New house

Watkins Harry, farmer, Black hill

Watkins John, farmer, Goodes

Watkins Leslie, farmer, Old mill

Watkins  Olive   (Mrs.),   farmer,   The Shawls

Watkins Wm. beer retailer [Innkeeper]. Bulls' Head

Weale   Wm.   Warren, [Innkeeper] Three Horse Shoes P.H

Yeomans Elwyn Ernest, farmer, Upper house

Yeomans Peter, farmer, Ruinsford

Observations:

This directory is not comprehensive in its coverage of all farms and commercial premises in the parish at the time.