Cusop

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Cusop is an English Victorian village that lies next to the world-famous book town of Hay-on-Wye. It is reached by driving out of Hay towards Bredwardine, and turning right into Cusop Dingle, locally known as 'Millionaire's Row', because of the large, Victorian houses which line the route up to Offa's Dyke, one of the popular walking tracks in the West of England.

Once documented as the last place in England in which Fairies were seen, the Dingle is a single track road running alongside the Dulas Brook (forming the border between Wales and England) into the foothills of the Black Mountains. With a multitude of waterfalls, the Dulas Brook is home to trout, otter and kingfishers.

Cusop was home to the poisoner Herbert Rowse Armstrong, the only English solicitor ever hanged for murder, and the grave of his wife Katharine is in the parish churchyard. His former home, originally "Mayfield" but now "The Mantles", is currently owned by Martin Beales who is a solicitor working in Armstrong's old office in Hay. Beales believes that Armstrong was innocent and has published a book arguing his case.

The writer L. T. C. Rolt also lived here between 1914 and 1922, in a house then known as Radnor View, in a development called "the Forty Acres" locally. Spending his early boyhood here, he later went on to co-found the Inland Waterways Association and the Talyllyn railways Preservation Society, and to write many books on transport, engineering biography and industrial archaeology