Long Street, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Long Street, a tithing in Enford parish, Wiltshire, on the river Avon, 6½. miles N of Amesbury. Long Sutton. See SOTTON, LONG. Longthorpe, an ecclesiastical parish in Northamptonshire, on the river Nen, 1½ mile W of Peterborough. It has a post and money order office under Peterborough; telegraph office, Peterborough. Population, 281. United with the hamlets of Dogsthorpe and Newark it forms the rural parish of Peterborough, and has a parish council. Thorpe Hall, a handsome mansion in the Italian style, is the seat of the Strong family. Thorpe Tower, now occupied as a farmhouse, is an ancient fortified building said to date from the beginning of the 13th century. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross yearly value, £136 with residence. The church is a plain building of coarse rubble of the 13th century, and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Long Street from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Street, Long)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Wiltshire papers online:

• Salisbury and Winchester Journal
• Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
• Wiltshire Independent
• Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle