Longstowe
Sign in to saveLongstowe is a civil parish and small rural village of nearly 200 residents in South Cambridgeshire, England, west of Cambridge. The population was measured at 205 at the 2011 census. It is situated on the western side of the A1198 road (Ermine Street), running for about a mile along the B1046.
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- UK place.static_image
- Longstowe, St Mary - geograph.org.uk - 3308.jpg
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- St Mary's Church, Longstowe
- UK place.official_name
- Longstowe
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TL310557
- UK place.post_town
- CAMBRIDGE
- UK place.postcode_area
- CB
- UK place.postcode_district
- CB23
- UK place.dial_code
- 01954
- UK place.shire_county
- Cambridgeshire
- UK place.population
- 205
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.hide_services
- Yes
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Longstowe is a civil parish and small rural village of nearly 200 residents in South Cambridgeshire, England, west of Cambridge. The population was measured at 205 at the 2011 census. It is situated on the western side of the A1198 road (Ermine Street), running for about a mile along the B1046.
==History== Seventeen people were counted at Longstowe for the 1086 Domesday Book. An area known as 'Town Green' around 1800 may have been the centre of the medieval village which had spread to the south by the middle of the 13th century.
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