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.