. • 50 CRASWALL. (KELLY'S are wheat, barley, oats and swedes. The area is S•I72 at 2.45 p.m.; no delivery on sunday. Longtown, 4 acres of land and 7 of water; rateable value, £1,893; miles diRtant, is the nearest money order & tele­ the population in tgr 1 was 225. graph office . Post Office.-Mrs. Emma Davies, sub-postmistress. Let-· Public Elementary School (mixed), with residence for ters through arrive at 9·55 a.m. except on master, built in 1876, for go children; average at- mondays, when tl.ey arrive at ro.3o a.m.; dispatched tendance, so; Thomas Bowen, master COMMERCIAL. Jones Elijah, farmer, Forest mill Smith Arthur, f.armer, The Coed Cole Sidney, farmer, Ruinsford Jones John, farmer, Upper house Smith Thomas, farmer. Wern Wen Davies Emma (Mrs.), shopkpr. Post off Jones Samuel, farmer,The New forest Smith Vear, farmer, Cwm steps Gane Wm. & ,Son, farmers-, Upper h-o Lewis William & James, farmers, Waring James, farmer, The Shawls Gane Elizh. (Mrs.),frmr.Craswall crt The Birches . Watkins Arthur, farmer, Llandraw Gane Hannah (Mrs.), beer retailer Maddy Jas. farmr.White Oak& Old ho Watkins David, beer retailer Gane James, farmer, Pentwyn Meredith Robert, farmer, Duke's farm Watkins George, farmer, The Road Gane Thomas, farmer, The Oaks Morri-s James, farmer, Chapel house Watkins George, farmer, Upper Cwm Gilbert David, farmer, White Hay wood Mountford Edward & James, farmers, Watkins Henry, farmer, Gworlodevain Hassall Samuel, farmer, Court farm The Town & Llanover Jenkins Moses & Morgan, farmers, Mountford John, farmer, Rocky fold Watkins James, farmer, Old mill· Middle Black hill Phillips David, farmer, Tyboobach Watkins John, farmer, Gt. Black hill Jenkins Jn. f.armer, Little Black hill Price James, farmer, Abbey farm Watkins William, farmer, Cwm mill Jenkins John, farmer, &i assistant Prosser Bybe, farmer, AbrahamReeds Winston John, farmer, Coed Major overseer, The Old Public Smith Alfred & James, farmers, Yeomans Peter, farmer, Cwm farm Jenkins Oscar, farmer, Low. Black hi Upper Black hill CREDENHILL is a village and parish on the Here­ tory, net yearly value £243, including 28 acres of glebe, ford and Kington road, about a mile north from the river with residence, in the gift of William Farrer Ecroyd esq. Wye, with a station half a mile north on the Hereford, and held since 1910 by the Rev. Claud Hamilton Dallas Hay and Brecon section of the Midland railway, 4! miles Lighton M.A. of Clare College, Cambridge. There are north-west from Hereford, 12! south-by-west from Leo­ charities of £3 gs. yearly value. On the summit of minster, 14! south-east from Kington and 148 from Lon­ Credenhill are the remains of a Roman encampment, don: the parish is in the Southern division of the county, covering an area of about so acres and inclosed by a Grimsworth hundred, Hereford county court district, double ditch, with three entrances; from this point a union and petty sessional division, and in the rural very beautiful and extensive view is obtained over deanery of W eston and archdeaconry and diocese of several counties. About half a mile south of the Hereford. The church of St. Mary is an ancient building church, on the estate of Charles Hardwick esq. are of stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, the remains of the ancient Magna Castra, or "Great south porch and a western tower containing 3 bells: in Camp," in which Roman coins and antiquities have the church are several marble monuments to the Eckley been frequently found. William Farrer Ecroyd esq. family, from 1758 to 1876, including the Rev. Richard D.L, J.P. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. Eckley, rector, d. 5 Sept. 1855, and the Rev. John Eckley, The soil is deep loam and gravel ; subsoil, red marl. rector, d. 2 March, 1867; there are also other memorials The crops are turnips, barley, clover and wheat. The to Thomas Hard wick esq. of Hereford, d. 12 ~ov. 1852; area is 1,255 acres of land and 3 of water; rateable Joseph Hardwick. who died at sea, 30 Sept. 1865, and value, £2,)04; the population in 19II was 272. others of this name, 1802-10: the east and south windows Post Office.-Mrs. Hall, sub-postmistress. Letters ar­ are stained : in the chancel is a memorial window to St. rivA from Hereford at 7.10 a.m. & 7 p.m. to callers Thomas a. Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and St. only. Box cleared at 6.5 & 6.50 p.m.; no delivery m Thomas de Cantelupe, Bishop of Hereford, both of whom dispatch on sunday. White Cross road is the nearest were canonized in the same year: the church was par· money order office & Burghill, 2 miles distant, the tially restored in 186r, and more completely renovated in nearest telegraph office 1876, at a cost of £r,ooo, under the direction of Thomas Nicholson esq. F.R.I.B.A. of Hereford, architect: in 1885 Public Elementary School (mixed), for 68 children; average attendance, 53 ; Miss Elizabeth Parsons, mist the churchyard was enlarged by a gift of land by William . . Farrer Ecroyd esq. who at the same time removed the Railway Station, Thomas Thomas, station master rectory to a more healthy and picturesque site. . The Carriers to Hereford.-Mrs. Vaughan, Mrs. Preece & register dates from the year 1671. The living is a rec. Mrs. Stinton, wed. & sat Andrews Thomas, The Havod COMMERCIAL. Pulling Henry, mason Birtwist1e Edward, The Chestnuts Reese A. & Co. coal & coke merchants, Brocklehurst Wm. Monnington house Green John Henry, butcher Railway station Ecroyd William Farrer D.L., J.P. Hall Edward Albert, farmer & hop Richards Samuel, blacksmith Credenhill court grower, Court farm Whiting Arthur James, as·sistan!; over· Evans Miss, Rockhouse Jones Daniel, miller (water) seer, Lower House farm & farmer, Hall Mrs. Poplars Lewis Thomas & Son, farmers, Lighton Rev. C1aud Hamilton Dallas Cross farm Whiting Richard Milburn, farmer, M.A. (rector), Rectory Mcrris .Albert, wheelwright Lower House farm CROFT is a parish, adjoining the road between Ludlow residents at Croft Castle: in the chancel are inscribed and Presteign, 4 miles nor~h from Kingsland station on floor stones to the Croft family : the oak carving of the the and Kington branch of the Great Western pews was executed by the Rev. Joseph Edwards M.A. railway, and 6 north-north-west from Leominster in the rector, 1839-86. The registBT dates from the year 1565. Northern division of the county, Leominster union, petty The living is a discharged rectory, with the vicarage of sessional division and county court district, Wolphy Yarpole ar.r.exed, joint net yearly value £310, including hundred, rural deanery of Leominster and archdeaconry 103 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the and . The church of St. Michael, Rev. Ernest Langham Boughton Kevill-Davies, and held which adjoins Croft Castle, is a picturesque building of since rgio by the Rev. Thomas Wilfred Ward M.A. of stone in mixed styles, consisting of chancel and nave, W orcestP.r College, Oxford. Croft Castle, anciently the north and south porches and a western turret containing seat of the Croft family, is within this parish ; the a clock and one bell: in the church are monuments to estate remained in the possession of the family from the ancient family of Croft, and some brasses: against the time of Edward the Confessor till the beginning the south wall of the chancel, which retains a piscina, of the last century; this family is now represented by is a marble tablet to the Rev. Richard Smith M.A. so Sir Herbert A. Croft, 10th hart. of Lugwardine Court. years rector of the parish, vicar of Yarpole and Eye, and Thomas Johnes esq. the learned translator of Froissart's a prebendary of Herefm·d, who died 6 July, 17g6; again!§t Chronicles, who was born at Ludlow in 1748, subse­ the same wall is a tablet to the Rev. Whittington Landon quently held the estate, and sold it to Somerset Da.vies D.D. Dean of Exeter, provost of Worcester College, Ox· esq. of Wigmore Hall, in 1785, from whom it descended ford, and for many years rector of Croft, d. 1839: on to his grandson, the Rev. William Trevelyan Kevill­ the north side of the chancel is an altar-tomb of free· Davies, and thence to his grandson, Wm. A. Somerset stone, with recumbent effigies of a knight in armour Herbert Kevill-Davies esq. J.P. the present proprietor and (supposed to represent Sir Richard Croft, knighted in occupier: the principal front is lighted by circular and 14 71) and his lady; the sides and ends of the tomb are pointed windows, and has an embattled entrance divided into compartments containing various figures; tower and four embattled towers at the angles: attached against the same wall is a DecoratPd monument of stonP to the ca.stle is a park of 250 acres, famous f·or its to the memory of the Knight and Johnes families, former ancient oak and beech trees : on an eminence in the