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 "Dray ...
,
Shropshire, England. It is just off the
A53, near to
Ternhill and lies in the parish of
Moreton Say
Moreton Say is a small village and sparsely populated civil parish in Shropshire, England, near the borders with Cheshire and Staffordshire, just northwest of the town of Market Drayton. It is sometimes spelled ''Moreton Saye'' or ''Moreton Se ...
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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
Hinstock is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England.
It appeared in the Domesday book survey as "Stoche" (from Old English ''stoc'', "dependent settlement"); the present version of its name was created in the mediaeval period by prefix ...
to the south. The village, not on the road, is located just east of Bletchley.
Notable people
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Major-general Sir James Rutherford Lumley
Major-general Sir James Rutherford Lumley KCB (1773–1846) was an English soldier of the Bengal Army in British India.
A son of the Reverend James Lumley and his wife Alice Rutherford, he was baptised on 22 December 1773 at Longford, Shropshi ...
KCB (1773–1846),
Bengal Army
The Bengal Army was the army of the Bengal Presidency, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire.
The presidency armies, like the presidencies themselves, belonged to the East India Company (EIC) until the Govern ...
["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
Moreton Say is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 21 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade& ...
References
External links
Longford- hamlet in Moreton Say Parish
Map of Longfordwest of Market Drayton
Villages in Shropshire
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