LongneyExtract from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.Transcribed by Mel Lockie, © Copyright 2010 Lewis Topographical Dictionaries LONGNEY, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of WHITSTONE, county of GLOUCESTER, 6 miles (S.W. by W.) from Gloucester, containing 443 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at £12. 1. 8., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence. The navigable river Severn runs on the west of this parish. |
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