LONGTOWN is a village and township in the parish of Clodock, situated at the foot of the Hatteral hills, or Black mountains, on the borders of Monmouthshire. The little rivers Monnow, Eskley, and Olchon run through the township and unite a little below the village. It is distant 16 miles S.W. of Hereford, 10 N. of Abergavenny, 11 S.S.E. of Hay, and 4 N. of Pandy station on the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford railway; is in Ewyas Lacy, hundred, Dore union and petty sessional division, Abergavenny county court district, and is a polling place for county elections. It forms a part of the parish of Clodock for ecclesiastical purposes only, but has its own parish officers, and supports its own poor. The population in 1861 was 892; in 1871, 858; inhabited houses, 191; families or separate occupiers, 201; area of township; 6,274a. 3r. 10p.; annual rateable value £4,656.The Marquess of Abergavenny is lord of the manor of Ewyas Lacy. The principal landowners in Longtown are Mynors Baskerville, Esq., of Clyro court, near Hay, Mrs. Feilden of Dulas court, Rev. Charles Lionel Eagles, Rev. G. Thomas, Mr. John Watkins; and several smaller proprietors. The soil is sandy; subsoil, red sandstone; chief produce, wheat, barley, oats, and pasture.

Here are some considerable remains of a castle; the walls are about 40 feet high, and 12 feet in thickness. To the eastward is an eminence called "Mynydd Ferdyn" (meaning sloping mountain). Fairs are held on April 29th for sheep and cattle, and a statute fair on September 21st. Longtown is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford. and rural deanery of Weobley; living, a vicarage with Llanveyno annexed; joint value, £160, derived from 212 acres of glebe; patron, the Vicar of Clodock (Rev. Charles Proberts, of Bacton); vicar, Rev. Edmund Davis, M.A., of Lexington College, United States, who was instituted in 1849. The chapel of ease, dedicated to St. Michael, was in 1869 beautifully restored at a cost of upwards of £1,100, chiefly obtained by subscriptions. It has nave, chancel, bell-turret with two bells, and about 200 sittings, all of which are free. The register begins with the year 1705. The Longtown district school board was formed June 1st, 1875. The district comprises five parishes. The school at Longtown was built in 1869 at a cost of about £400, and is situate on the Castle green. Salem Baptist chapel was erected in 1843.