CUSOP (anciently written Kynshop) is a village and parish situated on the borders of Brecknockshire, and on the main road between Hay and Hereford, distant 1 mile S.E. of the former town, 19 W. of the latter, and 11 S. of Kington. The Hay station on the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon branch of the Midland railway is in this parish. It is in Huntington hundred, Hay union and county court district, Dorstone polling district, and Bredwardine petty sessional division. The justices for the division meet at the "Nelson Inn" on the second Monday in every month. (The list of justices will be found under the head of Bredwardine.) The population of Cusop in 1861 was 218; in 1871, 208; inhabited houses, 47; families or separate occupiers, 49; area of parish, 2,294 acres; annual rateable value, £2,200. The soil is sandy; subsoil, sandstone; chief produce, wheat, barley, oats, and roots. F.R. Trumper, Esq., of Hay, is lord of the manor. Thomas James Stallard-Penoyre, Esq., of The Moor, Clifford, Thomas Lilwall, Esq., and Mrs. Watkins, are the principal landowners. Cusop is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Weobley; living, a rectory; value, £210, with 30 acres of glebe;; patron, Robert William Dacre Harley, Esq.; rector, Rev. David Rodney Murray, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, who was instituted in 1834, and resides at Brampton Brian rectory. The Rev. R.D. Palmer, B.A., is the curate. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is supposed to have been erected before the year 1100. It was restored in 1858, and now consists of nave, chancel, porch, font, bell-turret, and two bells. A school board has been recently formed for this parish, and a new school erected with teacher's residence.