LONGDON - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"LONGDON, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Pershore, county Worcester, 3 miles S.W. of Upton-on-Severn, and 4 N.W. of Tewkesbury, its post town and nearest railway station on the Midland line. It is situated within a short distance of the western bank of the river Severn, and includes the hamlets of Eastington, Hilworth, Hill-End, and several other small places. The road from Upton to Gloucester passes through the village. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £845, besides 94 acres of appropriate glebe.

The living is a vicarage* [the asterisk denotes that there is a parsonage and glebe belonging to the living] in the diocese of Worcester, value with the perpetual curacy of Castle-Morton annexed, £448, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, who are the appropriators and lords of the manor. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a brick structure with stone tower, containing a peal of 6 bells, re-cast in 1835. The register commences in 1538. The charities consist of Godwin's school endowment, producing £34, and others for the poor, realising altogether about £50 per annum. There is a National school held in a new building."
"EASTINGTON, a hamlet in the parish of Longdon, county Worcester, 3 miles S.W. of Upton-on-Severn."
"HILL-END, a hamlet in the parish of Longdon, county Worcester, 3 miles S.W. of Upton. There are besides several small places in England of this name, as Hill-End, near St. Alban's, Herts; near Walsall, Stafford; near Bromyard, Hereford, &c."
"HILLWORTH, a hamlet in the parish of Longdon, county Worcester, 2 miles S.W. of Upton-on-Severn."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]