Craswall (historically also spelt Craswell, Crasswall and Crosswold) is a village and
civil parish in
Herefordshire, England. It lies in the far west of the county, in the foothills of the
Black Mountains, close to the
border with
Wales.
Before 1536 Craswall was in the
marcher lordship of
Ewyas. Until 1866 it was a
chapelry
A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century.
Status
It had a similar status to a township but was so named as it had a chapel of ease (chapel) which was the communi ...
in the large parish of
Clodock (until 1852 in the
diocese of St David's). It then became a separate civil parish.
The village is near the source of the
River Monnow. Above the village is the
Black Hill, the setting for
Bruce Chatwin's novel ''
On the Black Hill''.
In the 2001 census the population of the civil parish was 147, increasing to 153 at the 2011 Census.
References
External links
Extract from Littlebury's Directory, 1876-77
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Villages in Herefordshire
Civil parishes in Herefordshire