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LONGNOR: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

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"LONGNOR, a parish in the hundred of CONDOVER, county of SALOP, 8 miles (S.) from Shrewsbury, containing 222 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Archdeacon Corbett. The church was a free chapel belonging to the abbey of Haughmond, and purchased of the vendees of the crown soon after the dissolution of the abbey, by the then proprietor of Longnor hall. A school is endowed with the interest of £200, the bequest of Sir Richard Corbett, Bart.; and there is a Sunday school, at which about sixty children -attend. This is the birthplace of the Rev. Samuel Lee, Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, an eminent self-taught linguist."

[Transcribed information from A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831](unless otherwise stated)

[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2015]