Longnor, Shropshire
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| Population | 289 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | SJ485005 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | SHREWSBURY |
| Postcode district | SY5 |
| Dialling code | 01743 |
| Police | West Mercia |
| Fire | Shropshire |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| EU Parliament | West Midlands |
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| Length: | 140 mi (230 km) |
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Longnor is a village and civil parish off the A49 road, south of Dorrington and north of Leebotwood in Shropshire, England, with a population of 289. The nearest railway station is 4.7 miles (7.6 km) away at Church Stretton. The Cound Brook flows just to the west of the village and its medieval deer park. The village is also noted for a famous Shropshire ghost, the White Lady of Longnor. It contains Longnor Hall and the Grade I listed medieval St Mary's Church. Regional Cycle Route 32/33 passes through Longnor, as do bus routes on between Church Stretton and Shrewsbury and Radbrook Green.
Longnor CE Primary School is the village primary school. In January 2011 it had 112 pupils aged between five and eleven. There is also a pre-school in Longnor called Little Seekers. The nearest secondary school is in Church Stretton.
St. Mary's church is an ancient, Grade 1 Listed Building building in the medieval Early English style, which has been continually and carefully conserved over the years. Two new stained glass windows were installed in 2000, to mark the turn of the millennium in the year 2000.
Originally a chapel to Condover, it was turned into a chapel for the Corbett family of Longnor Hall, before evolving into the parish church.
Longnor was the birthplace of Samuel Lee (1783–1853), a linguist, Cambridge academic and Anglican cleric, whose translations from the Bible and other religious works into Arabic and other languages helped to launch the missionary activities of the Evangelical movement in the first half of the 19th century.
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