Crosswell

The hamlet's name is from the Welsh: ffynnon (well) and groes (cross).

An inn once stood in the centre of the hamlet; not on the 1842 parish tithe map (though marked on pre-1850 parish maps^[3]), the inn is on the 1891 Ordnance Survey map as the Cwmgloyne Arms.^[4] The name may originate with Cwmgloyne, a mansion near Hen-llys, and the home of the antiquarian Thomas Lloyd who "dying as a bachelor, left his estate by will to Maurice Williams".^[5] Now a private dwelling called Ty Ffynnongroes (Crosswell House), the former inn was Grade II listed in 1997.^[6][7]

A stone, single-lane bridge crosses the River Nevern and adjacent water meadows to the north of the hamlet.^[3] The bridge is named Pontgynon (also recorded as Pantgynon or Pontcynon) and has existed at least since the early 17th century, but has been rebuilt since. The bridge and a 19th-century boundary stone set into the parapet were Grade II listed in 1997.^[8][9]

An Independent chapel was built near the bridge in 1839,^[1][10] rebuilt in 1882 and added to subsequently.^[11]

Until at least about the 1920s there was a shop in Crosswell, called the Royal Oak Shop.^[12]

Crosswell Village Hall was built in the 1950s.^[2]