Place:Cusop, Herefordshire, England

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NameCusop
Alt namesCheweshopesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 130
TypeParish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates52.067°N 3.11°W
Located inHerefordshire, England
Also located inHereford and Worcester, England     (1974 - 1998)
Herefordshire, England     (1998 - )
See alsoEwyas Lacy Hundred, Herefordshire, Englandhundred of which the parish was a part
Bredwardine Rural, Herefordshire, Englandrural district 1894-1934
Dore and Bredwardine Rural, Herefordshire, Englandrural district 1934-1974
South Herefordshire District, Hereford and Worcester, Englanddistrict municipality 1974-1998
Herefordshire District, Herefordshire, Englandunitary authority since 1998
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Cusop is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England that lies at the foot of Cusop Hill next to the town of Hay on Wye in Wales. There are two castles associated with the village: Cusop Castle and Mouse Castle, or Llygad. Cusop has a population of 356 in the UK census of 2011.

The Manor of Cusop formed part of the Ewyas Lacy Hundred and was once owned by the Clanowe Family, King Edward III, Henry ap Griffith, the Vaughans of Moccas and the Cornewall Family, lastly George Cornewall (1748-1819).

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Cusop from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"CUSOP, a parish in the [registration] district of Hay and county of Hereford; at the boundary with Brecon, near the Hereford and Brecon railway, 1¼ mile ESE of Hay. Post Town: Hay, under Hereford. Acres: 2, 294. Real property: £2, 260. Population: 218. Houses: 55. The property is much subdivided. The scenery is very beautiful. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value: £203. Patron: the Earl of Oxford. The church is old but good."

Research Tips

  • Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre, Fir Tree Lane, Rotherwas, Hereford HR2 6LA is where paper and microfilm copies of all records for Herefordshire are stored. The Archives Centre has a website where the index to the archives (and also the wills catalog) can be searched. One item in the catalog is List of all Herefordshire parish register and bishops transcripts holdings which is a PDF file with information provided in an old version of Excel.

Online sources which may also be helpful:

  • GENUKI gives pointers to other archive sources as well as providing some details on each parish in the county. The emphasis here is on ecclesiastical parishes (useful before 1837)
  • A listing of all the Registration Districts in England and Wales since their introduction in 1837 and tables of the parishes that were part of each district and the time period covered with detailed notes on changes of parish name, mergers, etc. Do respect the copyright on this material.
  • The FamilySearch Wiki for Herefordshire provides a similar but not identical series of webpages to that provided by GENUKI
  • A Vision of Britain through Time has a group of pages of statistical facts for almost every parish in the county
  • Unfortunately, only one volume on Herefordshire has been published in the Victoria County History series. British History Online have produced a series of Ordnance Survey first edition maps for the county which may be helpful for mid-nineteenth century inquiries
  • Ancestry.co.uk lists its collections of Herefordshire genealogical material.
  • FindMyPast collections of historical records can be searched for Herefordshire. They have collections of parish records for the pre-1837 period.
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