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Craswell is a township and small village, 8 miles north-west from Pontrilas railway station, 6 south-east from Hay, 6 west from Abbey Dore, and 16 from Hereford, in Ewais Hundred, Dore Union, Hereford archdeaconry and bishopric; situated near the source of the river Monnow, at the foot of the Black Mountains, on the borders of Brecknockshire. The church is a plain old stone building, in good repair; has nave, porch, font, small belfry and one bell. It is a chapel of ease to the vicarage at Cloddock. Here was formerly a small priory, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and subordinate to the order of Grandmount, in Normandy; it contained ten monks with their superior, who were established here about the reign of King John. At the suppression its revenues amounted to 40s. yearly, which was granted to Christ Church College, Cambridge. The Black Mountains are in this parish. The population, in 1851, was 357. The soil is sandy; the subsoil is sandstone; in the manor of Ewais Lacy.

Firhill is a hamlet.

Letters through Hay, which is the nearest money order office.

Farmers

Beavan Thomas

Davies Elizabeth

Evans Mrs.

Gaine Thomas

Gilbert John

Howell James

Jones James

Jones Samuel

Jones George

Jones William

Jenkins Sarah

Lewis J., Birches

Lewis William

Lewis David

Meredith Elizabeth

Price John

Prosser William

Parry James

Phillips William

Phillips John

Watkins David

Watkins George

Wall John

Williams Benjamin

Williams George

Williams Thomas

Source: Edward Cassey & Co.: History, Topography, and Directory of Herefordshire. Printed by William Bailey, 107, Fishergate 1858.