page_title: Longtown, Herefordshire
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Longtown, Herefordshire / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Longtown Castle, Herefordshire. Photograph taken by E R Purdye using Fuji slide film around 1978.
context_page_description: Longtown is a linear village and parish in Herefordshire, England. The parish includes the village of Clodock and had a population in mid-2010 of 543, increasing to 620 at the 2011 Census.
context_section_description: Longtown has an early Norman motte and bailey castle, Longtown Castle, and is so named because the settlement today is strung out along the lowland / winter road connecting Hay-on-Wye with the Abergavenny to Hereford road. The town was established as a Norman colony and protected by the castle.
  Before 1536 Longtown was in the marcher lordship of Ewyas.  Until 1866 it was a chapelry in the large ancient parish of Clodock (until 1852 in the diocese of St. David's).  It then became a separate civil parish.
caption: Motte and keep in the snow, 1978
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