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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Longhirst like this:
LONGHIRST, a township in Bothal parish, Northumberland; on the Northeastern railway, 2½ miles NE of Morpeth. It has a station on the railway. Acres, 1,703. Pop., 253. Houses, 55. Longhirst Hall and Longhirst Grange are chief residences. There are a national school and a reading-room.
Longhirst is now part of NORTHUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTHUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Longhirst itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Weobley in Herefordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9451
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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