The Cwm, in Clodock parish, Herefordshire, was the base for the missioning of Herefordshire from 1826 onwards. A chapel was built next to Cwm farmhouse in 1828 and it was still in use in 1940, when it could accommodate 100 souls sitting on forms. It was the head of a Circuit from 1826 to Union in 1932, and then of the Cwm and Kingstone Circuit which existed until this century. The chapel itself seems to have gone out of Methodist use before 1970. But where was it?
Even Kendall (vol.2 page 299) is honest enough to state that, for all its importance, you wouldn’t find either the chapel or farmhouse on a map. That is indeed true: even knowing that it was in the parish of Clodock will not help you find it marked on any Ordnance Survey map, even those of the finest detail. Does anyone know where this chapel actually was, and are there any photographs in existence?
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Cwm Chapel is marked on my OS map (dated 1967). It was down a track which crossed the River Minnow, and went on to the Upper Cwm Farm. Thus Street View will not show it. I preached at a harvest service there on 6th October 1968, and it closed after that. (Doesn’t say much for my preaching)!
The current OS map shows Cwm Farm at Grid Reference
SO 31729 26515.
StreetView does not get within a kilometre of it!
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