Longlevens

This article is about the suburb. For the civil parish formerly called Longlevens, see Innsworth.
Longlevens
Holy Trinity Church
Longlevens is located in Gloucestershire
Longlevens
Longlevens
Location within Gloucestershire
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
List of places
UK
England
Gloucestershire
51°52′40″N 2°13′01″W / 51.87787°N 2.21701°W / 51.87787; -2.21701
Longlevens within Gloucester.
The hamlet of Longleavens on a c.1880 Ordnance Survey map. Innsworth Cottage and Norman's Place to the north, Elmbridge to the east, Oxstalls to the south.
The centre of Longlevens on a 1950s Ordnance Survey map.

Longlevens, originally Longleavens, is a suburb of Gloucester, in Gloucestershire, England. It developed from a farmstead during the twentieth century, the name may be based on the old Roman name Colonia Glevensis, or the name could be based on an original field name "Long Elevens". This could have related to a long field about eleven acres therefore this could have been adopted as a name for the hamlet, first recorded in 1750, as part of the estate of Gloucester Cathedral. One of the oldest roads is 'The Avenue', which is shown on old maps as a number of farm cottages built in the 1850s. The population of Longlevens was 9,532 at the time of the 2011 Census.[1]

  1. ^ "Gloucester Ward population 2011". Retrieved 27 October 2015.