Longborough
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.[1]
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.
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.[2]
In September 2001, Longborough was the winner of the Bledisloe Cup competition for best kept village.[3]
Longborough hosts the Longborough Festival Opera, in a converted barn at the edge of the village.
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- Location map: 51°57’52"N, 1°46’7"W
- ↑ "Parish population 2011.Retrieved 23 March 2015". 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.
- ↑ Longborough, St James - a church near you
- ↑ "At last - Bledisloe cup joy" Cotswold Journal Archive. First published 6 September 2001. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
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