Longcroft is a small community in Cumbria, England, nestled in between Kirkbride and Anthorn.

The marsh at the bottom of the lands has been used in film documentaries, as it is the only place in Cumbria where there is not "background pollution".

[clarification needed] Isold Isabel de Longcroft (born about 1107, Longcroft, Cumbria) wed, in 1128, Lord Odard de Loges (aka Logis; born 1095, Highlands, Scotland), who was made Earl of Wigton by King Henry I, fourth son of William the Conqueror.

[1] The de Wigton and de Kirkbride families intermarried in 1286, when Sir Richard de Kirkbride married Christina de Wigton in Kirkbride, Cumbria; the couple had two sons: The extremely distant descendants of the Kirkbrides would eventually emigrate across the pond to the New World and help establish the American city of Trenton, New Jersey, the capital of the State of New Jersey.

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