LONGTOWN, a chapelry in the parish of CLODOCK,
hundred .of EWYASLACY, county of HEREFORD, 17
miles (S.W. by W.) from Hereford, containing 842 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry of Brecon, and diocese of St. David's,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £200
royal bounty. The Rev. James Rogers was patron in
1816. The chapel is dedicated to St. Peter. Courts baron
for the parish and hundred are held here annually.
Lewis Gilbert, Esq. bequeathed £4 per annum for the
instruction of children. There are some few vestiges
of a castle; and to the eastward is an eminence called
Money Farthing hill, probably from coins having been
found there.