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Longhope
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Longhope is a village in west Gloucestershire, situated within the Forest of Dean, England, United Kingdom. Arthur Bullock, who was born in Longhope in 1899, described its location as follows: The parish occupies the most easterly valley in the group of hills which lie between the Severn and the Wye. The name means long valley. It is about four miles long, running roughly north to south, and it is separated from the Severn valley by a range of hills consisting of May Hill (937 ft), Huntley Hill, Blaisdon Hill and Notwood Hill.'
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- Locality
- Forest of Dean
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,092
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.type
- Village
- UK place.official_name
- Longhope
- UK place.static_image_name
- Central Stores Longhope - geograph.org.uk - 3213259.jpg
- UK place.shire_district
- Forest of Dean
- UK place.shire_county
- Gloucestershire
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Forest of Dean
- UK place.population
- 1489
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.post_town
- Longhope
- UK place.postcode_area
- GL
- UK place.postcode_district
- GL17
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SO689189
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Longhope Football Club
- Longhope Central
- Bibliography
- References
- External links
Longhope is a village in west Gloucestershire, situated within the Forest of Dean, England, United Kingdom. Arthur Bullock, who was born in Longhope in 1899, described its location as follows: The parish occupies the most easterly valley in the group of hills which lie between the Severn and the Wye. The name means long valley. It is about four miles long, running roughly north to south, and it is separated from the Severn valley by a range of hills consisting of May Hill (937 ft), Huntley Hill, Blaisdon Hill and Notwood Hill.'
The village falls in the Blaisdon and Longhope electoral ward. This ward has Longhope in the north and Blaisdon as its smaller southerly neighbour. The total ward population taken at the 2011 census was 1,754.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Longhope” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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