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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Longford like this:
LONGFORD, a hamlet in Britford parish, Wilts; on the river Avon, 2½ miles SE of Salisbury. Longford Castle is the seat of the Earl of Radnor; was built about 1591, by Sir Thomas Georges, at a cost of about £18,000; had originally a triangular form, flanked at the angles by circula ...
r towers, and surrounded by a moat; was besieged and captured in 1645, by Cromwell; came into the possession of the Radnor family in 1717; was altered by the late Lord Radnor, who intended to rebuild it in a hexagonal form, but left it unfinished; continues still incomplete, flanked by five towers; and contains a remarkably rich picture-gallery, noted particularly for paintings by Holbein.
Longford is now part of WILTSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WILTSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Longford itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Longford in Wiltshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21521
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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