Longford is a small village near the town of
Market Drayton
Market Drayton is a market town and electoral ward in the north of Shropshire, England, close to the Cheshire and Staffordshire borders. It is on the River Tern, and was formerly known as "Drayton in Hales" (c. 1868) and earlier simply as "D ...
,
Shropshire
Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to ...
, England. It is just off the
A53, near to
Ternhill
Tern Hill, also known as Ternhill, is a village in Shropshire, England, notable as the location of the former RAF Tern Hill station, which is now operated by the British Army as Clive Barracks. The settlement is named after the River Tern whic ...
and lies in the parish of
Moreton Say.
Longford is 1.5 miles west of Market Drayton and 1 mile southeast of Moreton Say. A topographical guide to Shropshire published in 2005 describes Longford as a "charming hamlet on a rise in undulating country."
The village name is believed to come from a great road that existed in Roman times and was simply known as the Longford. By 1319 it was a Royal road between Bletchley and
Hinstock to the south. The village, not on the road, is located just east of Bletchley.
Notable people
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Major-general
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Sir
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...
James Rutherford Lumley KCB (1773–1846),
Bengal Army["Sir James R Lumley" in C. E. Buckland, ed., ''Dictionary of Indian Biography'' (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1906)]["James Rutherford Lumley"]
in ''England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538–1975'', ancestry.co.uk, accessed 25 November 2022
See also
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Listed buildings in Moreton Say
References
External links
Longford- hamlet in Moreton Say Parish
Map of Longfordwest of Market Drayton
Villages in Shropshire
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