Craswall

Craswall
Craswall Church
Craswall Location within Herefordshire
Population	153 (2011 Census)
District	Herefordshire
Shire county	Herefordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Hereford
Postcode district	HR2
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Hereford and South Herefordshire
List of places UK England Herefordshire 52°00′31″N 3°02′15″W / 52.00861°N 3.03750°W / 52.00861; -3.03750

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 in the large parish of Clodock (until 1852 in the diocese of St David's). It then became a separate civil parish.^[1]

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,^[2] increasing to 153 at the 2011 Census.^[3]

References

External links

• Extract from Littlebury's Directory, 1876-77

52°00′31″N 3°02′15″W / 52.00861°N 3.03750°W / 52.00861; -3.03750

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