Longnor, Shropshire Family History Guide

Longnor is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Shropshire, created in 1739 from a chapelry in Condover Ancient Parish.

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Parish registers: 1586
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1669

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LONGNOR, a village and a parish in Church-Stretton district, Salop. The village stands on the river Onny, near Watling-street, 1½ mile NNE of Leebotwood r. station, and 5 NNE of Church-Stretton; and is supposed to occupy the site of a Roman station. The parish comprises 1,200 acres; and its Post town is Leebotwood, under Shrewsbury. Real property, £3,656; of which £88 are in mines. Pop., 244. Houses, 48. The property is divided among a few. Longnor Hall is a chief residence. Coal is found, but is worked less now than formerly. The living is a vicarage annexed to the vicarage of Leebotwood, in the diocese of Lichfield. The church is ancient but good; and belonged formerly to Haughmond abbey. There are a national school, and charities £44. The Rev. Samuel Lee, late professor of Arabic at Cambridge, was a native.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

LONGNOR, a parish, in the union of Church-Stretton, hundred of Condover, S. division of Salop, 8 miles (S.) from Shrewsbury; containing 243 inhabitants, and comprising about 800 acres. The living is a perpetual curacy, united to that of Lee-Botwood. The church was a free chapel belonging to the abbey of Haughmond, and was purchased of the crown’s vendees soon after the Dissolution, by the then proprietor of Longnor Hall. A school was endowed in 1774, with the interest of £200, by Sir Richard Corbett, Bart., who left other bequests for the benefit of the poor. This is the birthplace of the Rev. Samuel Lee, the eminent self-taught linguist, and professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Registers

Longnor, Shropshire Parish Registers 1586 to 1812

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Shropshire Parish Registers Diocese of Lichfield V. 5

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Parish Records

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England, Shropshire, Longnor – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Longnor, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Shropshire, Longnor – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Longnor, 1626-1868
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Longnor (Shropshire)

Registers of Longnor

England, Shropshire, Longnor – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Longnor, Shropshire, England

England, Shropshire, Longnor – Manors – Court records ( 1 )
Estreats, 1591-1602, and court rolls, 1484-1622
Author: Manor of Longnor. Court (Shropshire)

Poll Books

Poll Book 1865, Longnor Shropshire

Below are the names of those that voted in the election of July 1865 between Col. The Hon. P. E. Herbert, Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bart., and R. Jasper More, Esq.

Poll Book of the Election, July 1865 for the Southern Division of Shropshire.

Church Stretton Polling District

Longnor, Parish of

1273 Corbett Edward

1274 Corbett Lionel

1275 Edmunds John

1276 Everall Richard

1277 Lee John

1278 Pugh William