Longnor

Parish/Community: Longnor
Unitary Authority: Shropshire
Region: West Midlands

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°36'3"N 2°45'24"W
Eastings/Northings: 348840, 300619
OS Grid: SJ488006
Mapcode Local: GBR BJ.97YT
Mapcode Global: WH8C6.MWFG

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

Longnor in historic gazetteers

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

Longnor.-- par. and vil., Shropshire, on river Only, 5 miles N. of Church Stretton, 1200 ac., pop. 199; in vicinity of vil. is the seat of Longnor Hall.

Longnor in the Domesday Book

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

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Aldred brother of Siward
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Reginald the sheriff
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: Azo Bigot (subinfeudated); Roger the hunter (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 2 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £8 in 1066; £1 in 1070; £3 4/- in 1086
- Households: 5 villagers; 9 smallholders; 4 slaves; 2 ploughmen
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 3 men's ploughs (15 plough lands)
- Woodland: 600 pigs
- Mills: 1

British Place Names

Longnor, Shropshire

Longnor is a village in Shropshire

Longnor in historic gazetteers

Longnor in the Domesday Book