Although situated within two miles of Gloucester city centre, Longford parish falls within the jurisdiction of the Borough of Tewkesbury.
[1] The village borders the Tewkesbury Road running north out of Gloucester and is bisected by the A40 northern bypass at the busy Longford roundabout.
From Gloucester, the Tewkesbury road ran northwards from Alvin gate through the settlements of Kingsholm, Longford, and Twigworth.
Bridges and a causeway carried the Tewkesbury road over water courses and low-lying meadows in Longford, which took its name from the crossing.
Further north in Longford there was a small early settlement at the south end of the causeway, where a medieval cross and possibly a chapel stood.
In the south Pleasure Farm, an early 18th-century brick farmhouse which in 1799 belonged to Anthony Ellis, was used as a lorry depot for several years before 1983 when it was demolished to make room for a housing estate.
LONGFORD, a hamlet in those parts of the parishes of ST-CATHERINE, and ST-MARY-de-LODE-GLOUCESTER, which are in the upper division of the hundred of DUDSTONE-and-KING'S-BARTON, county of GLOUCESTER, 1 mile (N.E.
In 1866 a free hospital for children of the poor was begun next to St. Lucy's Home of Charity on the site of the current Gambier Parry Gardens.
Gambier Parry also conceived the idea for the children's hospital in connection with the home and paid much of the building costs.
In 1876, Gambier Parry moved the home to a large house at the corner of Hare Lane and Pitt Street.
[11][12] From 2017 to 2022, the University of Gloucestershire made significant improvements to Plock Court as part of its Oxstalls Campus redevelopment.