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Longford is a village near Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. Although Longford is within 2 miles of Gloucester city centre, Longford Parish falls within the jurisdiction of the Borough of Tewkesbury. 〔GloucestershireCC. ("Longford Parish Council" ), ''Gloucestershire County Council'', Gloucestershire. Retrieved on 10th November 2015.〕 The village borders the Tewkesbury Road running north out of Gloucester and is bisected by the A40 northern bypass at the busy Longford roundabout.〔CitizenNews. ("Overnight Closures at Longford Roundabout planned from tomorrow night" ), ''Gloucester Citizen'', Gloucestershire, 10th December 2014. Retrieved on 10th November 2015.〕 Longford was severely affected by the July 2007 floods 〔Wikimedia. ("Longford village flooding on Tewkesbury Road (A38) - geograph.org.uk" ), ''Wikimedia''. Retrieved on 10th November 2015.〕 〔BBCNews. ("Gloucestershire floods: Longford concerns over new homes" ), ''BBC News'', Gloucestershire, 18th February 2014. Retrieved on 10th November 2015.〕 〔BBCHome. ("Gloucestershire floods photos" ), ''BBC Home'', Longford, Gloucester. Retrieved on 10th November 2015.〕 〔CitizenNews. ("Fears grow over flooding in Longford as a new primary school comes to the area" ), ''Gloucester Citizen'', Gloucestershire, 18th February 2014. Retrieved on 10th November 2015.〕 〔SkyNews. ("Building Homes On Flood Plains 'To Be Blocked'" ), ''Sky News'', 6th March 2014. Retrieved on 10th November 2015.〕 resulting in the many homes being flooded. The bar at the Queen's Head on the Tewkesbury Road was under a couple of feet of water 〔CitizenNews. ("Prime Minister David Cameron visits flood victims in Gloucestershire" ), ''Gloucester Citizen'', Gloucestershire, 17th February 2014. Retrieved on 11th November 2015.〕 and the flooding extended along the Tewkesbury Road, past the Longford Inn as far as Westfield Terrace. Longford is primarily residential, and is home to Oxstalls Sports Park and Tennis Centre, the Winfield Hospital 〔WinfieldHospital. ("Winfield Hospital" ), ''Winfield Hospital'', Longford, Gloucestershire. Retrieved on 10th November 2015.〕 and both Longford and Gala Wilton Football Clubs. A new primary school is due to open at Whittington Park, Longford, in September 2017 〔GloucestershireCC. ("New Primary School for Longford" ), ''Gloucestershire County Council'', Gloucestershire. Retrieved on 10th November 2015.〕 near the Longford Village Hall. 〔GRCC. ("Gloucestershire Rural Community Council, Longford Village Hall" ), ''Longford Village Hall'', Longford, Gloucestershire. Retrieved on 10th November 2015.〕 〔CitizenNews. ("Help raise funds for the Longford Village Hall" ), ''Gloucester Citizen'', Gloucestershire, 25th May 2013. Retrieved on 10th November 2015.〕 ==History== From Gloucester, the Tewkesbury road ran northwards from Alvin gate through the settlements of Kingsholm, Longford, and Twigworth. In Kingsholm it was joined by a road from the blind gate, which in its south part was known in 1803 as Dean's Walk and in its north part in 1722 as Snake Lane (later Edwy Parade). Bridges and a causeway carried the Tewkesbury road over water courses and low-lying meadows in Longford, which took its name from the crossing. 〔BHO. ("Gloucester: Outlying hamlets" ), ''British History Online'', Gloucester. Retrieved on 10th November 2015.〕 On the Tewkesbury road north of Kingsholm a house was converted into three cottages in the early 19th century. Further north in Longford there was a small early settlement at the south end of the causeway, where a medieval cross and possibly a chapel stood. There was evidently a house there by the early 13th century, when a man surnamed of the plock was recorded, and Plock Court, east of the road, occupied the site of a medieval manor house. In 1851 market gardeners were fairly numerous in Longford and Twigworth, and later there were several market gardens and nurseries at Longlevens (called Springfield) and Innsworth. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Longford like this: 〔VisionOfBritain. ("Longford Parish Council" ), ''A Vision Of Britain Through Time'', Longford, Gloucestershire. Retrieved on 10th November 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Longford, Gloucester」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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