Longnor is a village and civil parish off the A49 road, south of Dorrington and north of Leebotwood in Shropshire, England, with a population of 289.
The village contains Longnor Hall and the Grade I listed medieval St Mary's Church.
Regional Cycle Route 32/33 passes through, as do buses between Church Stretton and Shrewsbury and Radbrook Green.
St. Mary's Church is a Grade 1 Listed Building in the medieval Early English style.
[2] Longnor was the birthplace of Samuel Lee (1783–1852), a linguist, Cambridge academic and Anglican cleric, whose translations from the Bible and other religious works into Arabic and other languages helped to launch the missionary activities of the Evangelical movement in the first half of the 19th century.
[4][5] Its 2018 SAT results put it in England's top 1 per cent of schools for the proportion of children reaching and exceeding expected standards in writing and mathematics.
In 2008, the electorate in the parish was 343 members, who vote on matters such as improving the quality of life of the two communities and looking after the environment.
It influences and works alongside the principal authority Shropshire Council, Police, Highways Agency, PCT.
[11] Some alterations were made in 1838–1842 by the architect and builder Edward Haycock Sr.[11][12] The Corbett family had arrived in Shropshire with the Norman Conquest, under Hugh Corbet.
The last of the family was Jane Corbett, who married Archdeacon Joseph Plymley; he took his wife's surname to inherit the estate.
Having rainwater runoff from the Stretton Hills join it, the brook widens, passing to the east of Leebotwood and west of Longnor and the Medieval deer park there.
It provides the main routes between Longnor and surrounding towns and villages, notably Shrewsbury and Church Stretton.
[24] The nearest railway station to Longnor is 4.7 miles (7.6 km) off at Church Stretton on the Welsh Marches line, beside the 435 bus route.