Longnor, Shropshire

Coordinates: 52°36′04″N 2°45′22″W / 52.601°N 2.756°W / 52.601; -2.756
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"Longnor Hall" redirects here. Not to be confused with Longner Hall in Longner, Shropshire.
Longnor
The ford at the Old Forge, Longnor
Longnor is located in Shropshire
Longnor
Longnor
Location within Shropshire
Population289 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceSJ485005
Civil parish
  • Longnor
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSHREWSBURY
Postcode districtSY5
Dialling code01743
PoliceWest Mercia
FireShropshire
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Shropshire
52°36′04″N 2°45′22″W / 52.601°N 2.756°W / 52.601; -2.756

Longnor is a village and

Longnor Hall and the Grade I listed medieval St Mary's Church. Regional Cycle Route 32/33 passes through, as do buses between Church Stretton and Shrewsbury and Radbrook Green
. The village is also noted for a ghost, the White Lady of Longnor.

Facilities

Church

Longnor Church from the north-east
Longnor Church from the west

St. Mary's Church is a Grade 1

stained glass windows were installed in 2000, to mark the turn of the millennium
.

Originally a chapel for Condover, it became a private chapel for the Corbett family of Longnor Hall, before taking on the function of a parish church.[2]

Longnor was the birthplace of Samuel Lee (1783–1852), a linguist, Cambridge academic and Anglican cleric, whose translations from the Bible and other religious works into Arabic and other languages helped to launch the missionary activities of the Evangelical movement in the first half of the 19th century.[3]

Education

Longnor CE Primary School, the village primary school, had 112 pupils aged five to eleven in January 2011.[4][5] Its 2018 SAT results put it in England's top 1 per cent of schools for the proportion of children reaching and exceeding expected standards in writing and mathematics.

Its attached

pre-school section is called Little Owls.[6] The nearest secondary school is in Church Stretton.[7]

Food and drink

The nearest restaurant is 1.7 miles (2.7 km) away in

Little Ryton, which also serves meals, including vegetarian.[9]

Local government

Leebotwood & Longnor PC

Longnor shares a

PCT.[10]

Longnor Hall and the Corbetts

For the country home near Shrewsbury, see Longner Hall.

Longnor Hall features a park and formal gardens. The park originated in the 14th century; formal gardens were laid out in the 17th century. The 18th-century park and modern gardens survive.[11]

The hall was begun by Sir Richard Corbett in 1670 as a successor to Roger Sprencheaux's fortified manor house of 1235,[12] and completed in 1693 under his son Uvedale Corbett.[13] Some alterations were made in 1838–1842 by the architect and builder Edward Haycock Sr.[13][14]

The Corbett family had arrived in Shropshire with the Norman Conquest, under Hugh Corbet. The branch of the family that lived in Longnor dated from the 1500s. The last of the family was Jane Corbett, who married Archdeacon Joseph Plymley; he took his wife's surname to inherit the estate.[15]

Farming

Longnor has various farms, three of which are Upper House Farm, The Farm, and Green Farm.[16] These form the main economic force in the area, most of the employment being agricultural throughout history.[17] Green Farm specializes in dairy cattle. It installed a modern milking facility in 2010.[18]

View of Green Farm, from the Roman Road

Natural features

Cound Brook

Main article: Cound Brook

Medieval deer park there. Continuing east of Dorrington village, it changes direction to east at Stapleton. The flow can vary from slow and sluggish in a dry summer to a torrent in winter or spring.[19]

The Cound Brook from Longnor Bridge

Medieval deer park

The

medieval deer park was an enclosed area bounded by a ditch and bank with a wooden park palisade. The ditch was typically on the inside, so that deer could enter the park but not leave it.[20]

Climate and environment

The temperate climate in the Longnor area is typical for its region. However, occasional extremes can occur. In April 2012, there were snow storms.[21][22]

View of the countryside in the area of Longnor

History

In 1870–1872, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Longnor like this: Longnor, a village and a parish in Church-Stretton district,

Cambridge, was a native.[23]

Shropshire ghost

The White Lady of Longnor is said to appear clothed in a long white wedding dress, on or by the road bridge near the village. She is thought to have thrown herself into the water below after being deserted at the altar.[24]

Transport

Road

A49 shield
A49
Route information
Length140 mi (230 km)
Location
CountryUnited Kingdom
Constituent countryEngland
Road network
A49 Near North Lodge, to the North of Longnor

The A49 is the main road that passes by Longnor just to the west of the village. It heads north and south, traversing the Welsh Marches between Hereford and Wigan. It provides the main routes between Longnor and surrounding towns and villages, notably Shrewsbury and Church Stretton. Church Stretton as the nearest town for shopping. The A49 is also the bus route for Longnor: the No. 435 stops just north of the village.[25]

Cycling

Route 32/33 links the village with the

Little Ryton and All Stretton as part of National Cycle Route 44.[26]

Trains

The nearest railway station to Longnor is 4.7 miles (7.6 km) off at

Welsh Marches Line, beside the 435 bus route. The nearest mainline station is in Shrewsbury, 7.7 miles (12.4 km) to the north.[27]

Buses

Longnor is served by bus routes numbered 435 and 540. Both start from Church Stretton, being the largest town nearby. The 435 takes in a number of different villages, including Longnor, on its way to Shrewsbury. The 540 runs to Radbrook Green, a suburb of Shrewsbury.[27]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  2. ^ "St Mary's, Longnor - Steeplewood Fold".
  3. ^ Nile Green: Terrains of Exchange. Religious Economies of Global Islam (London: C. Hurst & Co., 2014), pp. 59–64.
  4. ^ Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  5. ^ OFSTED
  6. ^ "Support dropped for outdated links | Shropshire Council".
  7. ^ School site. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  8. ^ "THE POUND AT LEEBOTWOOD, Church Stretton - Updated 2022 Restaurant Reviews, Menu & Prices".
  9. ^ Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  10. ^ "Longnor and Leebotwood Parish Council Website". Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 2012-05-02.
  11. ^ http://www.parksandgardens.ac.uk/component/option,com_parksandgardens/task,site/id,6300/Itemid,292/ [permanent dead link]
  12. ^ "Longnor".
  13. ^ a b "Longnor Hall, Longnor, Shropshire".
  14. ^ "Thomas Kellner - Photography in Art: Haycock, Edward". Archived from the original on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  15. ^ Burke's Landed Gentry, 18th edition, vol. 2, ed. Peter Townend, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1969, p. 117.
  16. ^ "Streetmap.co.uk - Map of 349673,299863". www.streetmap.co.uk. Archived from the original on 9 November 2013.
  17. ^ Vision of Britain
  18. ^ "Milking Machines & Cooling Systems".
  19. ^ "Cound Brook - GoThisPlace". gothisplace.com. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
  20. ISBN 0-460-04183-5
    .
  21. ^ Shropshire Star
  22. ^ "Met Office: Regional Climate: Midlands". Archived from the original on 26 September 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  23. ^ Southall, H. "Longnor History". Vision of Britain.
  24. ^ Shropshire Star
  25. ^ http://shropshire.gov.uk/bustimes/stop.jsc?stop=3500B143701. Archived 21 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  26. ^ "National Cycle Route 44 : Regional Route 32 33".
  27. ^ a b National Rail. "Longnor Buses". Archived from the original on 30 April 2011.

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