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Longtown

Longtown in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.

Two blue containers outside Longtown Village Hall - geograph.org.uk - 7199818

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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

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Where is Longtown?
Longtown is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 51.9547°, -2.9872°.