Longden

Other current and historical names

Longdon
Langedune

Built-Up Area: Longden
Parish/Community: Longden
Unitary Authority: Shropshire
Region: West Midlands

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°39'11"N 2°49'28"W
Eastings/Northings: 344318, 306472
OS Grid: SJ443064
Mapcode Local: GBR BF.5WVQ
Mapcode Global: WH8BZ.LK5X

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Longden within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Longden in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Longden, curacy, Pontesbury par., Shropshire, 5 miles SW. of Shrewsbury.

Longden in the Domesday Book

A village in Reweset hundred, in the county of Shropshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Leofric
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Robert son of Corbet
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Robert son of Corbet
- Taxable Value: 3 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £4 in 1066; £1 10/- in 1070; £2 in 1086
- Households: 1 villager; 9 smallholders; 6 cottagers; 4 slaves; 3 riders
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 2 men's ploughs (7 plough lands)
- Woodland: 60 pigs

British Place Names

Longden, Shropshire

Longden is a village in Shropshire

Longden in historic gazetteers

Longden in the Domesday Book