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Longdon in 1872

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John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales - 1870-2


LONGDON, a parish in Lichfield district, Stafford; 1 mile S of Armitage railway station, 2 W of the Grand Trunk canal, and 4 NNW of Lichfield. It contains the village of Brookend, which is central, the village of Upper Longdon, and the straggling hamlet of Gentleshaw, aggregately so long that an old rhyme says that a beggar cannot beg through them on a summer day; and it has a post-office under Rugeley. Acres, 4,511. Real property, £9,085. Pop. in 1851, 1,148; in 1861, 1,220. Houses 289. The property is not much divided. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Anglesey. Beaudesert Park is the Marquis's seat; Lysways is the residence of Mrs. Forster; and Hanch Hall is the property of C. Forster, Esq.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £230. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church has a Norman arch; is in good condition; and contains an altar-tomb of J. Forster, Esq., who died in 1860, and other interesting monuments. A tract, which contained 311 inhabitants in 1861, is included in the chapelry of Gentleshaw, constituted in 1840. There are an Independent chapel at Longdon-Green, a Wesleyan chapel at Upper Longdon, a national school, alms-houses for ten poor women, and other charities £100. 

An 1872 Gazetteer description of the following place in Longdon is to be found on a supplementary page.

  • Gentleshawe
[Description(s) from The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]