Description
Longnor, a village and a parish in Salop. The village stands on the Cound Brook, near Watling Street, 1 1/2 mile NNE of Leebotwood station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Joint (L. & N.W. and G.W.) railway, and 5 miles NNE of Church Stretton, and is supposed to occupy the site of a Roman station. Post town, Leebotwood, under Shrewsbury; money order and telegraph office, Dorrington. The parish comprises 821 acres; population, 198. Longnor Hall and The Bank are chief residences. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Leebotwood, in the diocese of Lich-field. The church is ancient, and belonged formerly to Haugh-mond Abbey. The Rev. Samuel Lee, who was Professor of Arabic at Cambridge, was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
