Longborough, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Longborough, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, on the Fosse Way, 3 miles SW of Moreton station on the G.W.R., and 9 SW of Shipston-on-Stour. The village has a post office under Moreton-in-the-Marsh; money order and telegraph office, Moreton-in-the-Marsh. Acreage of the civil parish, 3036; population. 552; of the ecclesiastical, with Sezin-cote, 641. The manor belongs to Lord Leigh. Banks Fee is the chief residence. A Roman settlement was at or near the village. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Sezincote, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; joint gross value, £250. The church is Perpendicular, and was restored in 1884; the chancel was restored in 1893. It contains a tomb of 1635 to William Leigh. There is a Congregational chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Gloucestershire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Longborough St. James | |
| Hundred | Kiftsgate | |
| Poor Law union | Stow-on-the-Wold |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register, including Sezincot, dates from the year 1676.
The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
Church of England
St. James (parish church)
The church of St. James is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing 6 bells, re-hung, and one re-cast in 1896, at a cost of about £100: in the south transept is a tomb, with the recumbent figure of a knight wearing a coroneted helmet, and a handsome marble monument to William Leigh, ob. 1635; under a richly carved canopy, supported by four marble pillars, lie the effigies of William Leigh (in armour), his wife and three children: there are also three canopied niches with pedestals for statues and some fragments of ancient stained glass: the porch doorway is Norman: in 1893 the chancel was restored at a cost of about £770: in 1903 a new organ was given by J. T. Dugdale esq. J.P. and the Hon. Mrs. Godman: there are 250 sittings.
Congregational
Congregational Chapel
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 Longborough from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Longborough (St. James))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Longborough 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 newspapers covering Gloucestershire online:
- Gloucester Citizen
- Gloucester Journal
- Gloucestershire Chronicle
- Gloucestershire Echo
- Cheltenham Chronicle
- Cheltenham Looker-On
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.