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Longtown
Longtown in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Longtown is a place of interest in Wales Mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Longtown is a linear village and parish in Herefordshire, England. The parish includes the village of Clodock and had a population in mid-2010 of 543, increasing to 620 at the 2011 Census.
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Background
History
Longtown has an early Norman motte and bailey castle, Longtown Castle, and is so named because the settlement today is strung out along the lowland / winter road connecting Hay-on-Wye with the Abergavenny to Hereford road. The town was established as a Norman colony and protected by the castle. Before 1536 Longtown was centre of the marcher lordship of Ewyas Lacy. Until 1866 it was a chapelry in the large ancient parish of Clodock (until 1852 in the Diocese of St Davids). The township or civil parish of Longtown includes the hamlet of Clodock.
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- Coordinates
- 51.9547, -2.9872
Sources
- wikidata: Q3399511 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Longtown, Herefordshire (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Longtown?
- Longtown is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 51.9547°, -2.9872°.