Longford (Foleshill), Warwickshire
Historical Description
Longford, a village in Foleshill parish, Warwickshire, on the Coventry Canal, 4 miles NNE of Coventry. It has a station (called Longford and Exhall) on the Coventry and Nuneaton branch of the L. & N.W.R., and a post, moneyorder, and telegraph office under Coventry.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Longford (Foleshill) 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 Warwickshire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Warwickshire 1619 is available on the Heraldry page.