Description
Longford, a parish in Salop, on the Shropshire Union Canal, 1 1/2 mile W of Newport station on the Stafford, Newport, Wellington, and Shrewsbury branch of the L. & N.W.R. It includes the townships of Brockton and Stockton. Post .town, Newport. Acreage, 1258; population of the civil parish, 98; of the ecclesiastical, 163. Longford Hall is a fine mansion situated in a well-timbered park, which contains a lake. A Koman settlement was here. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £270 with residence. The church is modern, and has a tower; and part of the previous church adjoins it, and contains monuments of the Talbots.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
