Description
Longhope, a parish in Gloucestershire, near the boundary with Herefordshire, 6 miles N by W of Newnham, and 9 W of Gloucester. It has a station on the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester branch of the G.W.R., and a post and money order office (R.S.O.); telegraph office at the railway station. Acreage, 3153; population, 972. Yartleton Hill or May Hill is an eminence 973 feet above the level of the sea, commanding an extensive view. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £334. The church, All Saints, is ancient, and was restored in 1870. There is a Baptist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
