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[[File:St_James's_Church,_Longborough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_246852.jpg|thumb|250px|St James Church, Longborough]]<br />
'''Longborough''' is a village and parish in [[Gloucestershire]], located 2½ miles north of the market town of [[Stow on the Wold]]. The parish population taken at the 2011 census was 471.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11126063&c=GL56+0QW&d=16&e=62&g=6427040&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1427126979000&enc=1|title=Parish population 2011.Retrieved 23 March 2015}}</ref><br />
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The village is abouthalf a mile east of the A424 road, around a mile and a half west of the [[Fosse Way]] (A429) and is on the [[Heart of England Way]].<br />
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Longborough has a village shop and post office; a farm shop; an opera house; two public houses, one in the village itself, and the other in the hamlet of [[Ganborough]]; a village school and the 12th-century Church of England parish church of St James.<ref>[http://www.achurchnearyou.com/longborough-st-james/ Longborough, St James - a church near you]</ref><br />
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In September 2001, Longborough was the winner of the Bledisloe Cup competition for best kept village.<ref>[http://archive.cotswoldjournal.co.uk/2001/9/6/21315.html "At last - Bledisloe cup joy"] Cotswold Journal Archive. First published 6 September 2001. Retrieved 8 March 2010.</ref><br />
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Longborough hosts the Longborough Festival Opera, in a converted barn at the edge of the village. <br />
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