Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LONGDON

LONGDON, a chapelry in Pontesbury parish, Salop; 3 miles WSW of Condover r. station, and 5 SW of Shrewsbury. Post town, Shrewsbury. Pop., 88. There are malt kilns and lead mines. The living is a donative in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £75. Patron, the Rev. J. Breese. The church is of brick.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Pontesbury AP/CP       Shropshire AncC
Place: Longden

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