Longnor, Shropshire
Historical Description
Longnor, a village and a parish in Salop. The village stands on the Cound Brook, near Watling Street, 1½ mile NNE of Leebotwood station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Joint (L. & N.W. and G.W.) railway, and 5 miles NNE of Church Stretton, and is supposed to occupy the site of a Roman station. Post town, Leebotwood, under Shrewsbury; money order and telegraph office, Dorrington. The parish comprises 821 acres; population, 198. Longnor Hall and The Bank are chief residences. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Leebotwood, in the diocese of Lich-field. The church is ancient, and belonged formerly to Haugh-mond Abbey. The Rev. Samuel Lee, who was Professor of Arabic at Cambridge, was a native.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Salop | |
Hundred | Condover | |
Poor Law union | Church-Stretton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Shropshire Archives have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Longnor
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Longnor from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Longnor are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Shropshire newspapers online:
- Shrewsbury Chronicle
- Wellington Journal
- Eddowes's Journal, and General Advertiser for Shropshire, and the Principality of Wales
- Ludlow Advertiser
- Salopian Journal
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.