Books and Articles

A selection of books and articles that include material about the area, its people and its history from prehistoric times to the present is listed below. Copies of Items marked with an asterisk (*) are  held in the Longtown Historical Society Library.

Bannister, Rev A.T. (1902) The History of Ewyas Harold , Jakeman & Carver.
Beteux , Victoria (1996). Archaeological Assessment of Longtown . Hereford and Worcester Archaeological Service: Project 945; Report 326
Chatwin, Bruce (1982). On the Black Hill . Jonathan Cape
Coates, SD & Tucker, DG (1978). Water-mills of the Monnow and Trothy and their tributaries . ISBN 0950329525, Monmouth District Museum Service, Monmouth, Gwent.
* Coplestone-Crow, Bruce (1989). Herefordshire Place Names. British Archaeological Report 214, Oxford
* Duncomb, John (1812). Collections towards the History and Antiquities of the County of Hereford, Part I Vol II, London. (Facsimile reprint 1997, Priory Press, Cardiff)
Faraday, M.A. (2005)  Herefordshire Taxes in the Reign of Henry VIII , Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, Herefordshire
* Hillaby, Joe (1993). 'Colonisation, crisis-management and debt: Walter de Lacy and the Lordship of Meath, 1189-1241'. Riocht no Midhe, VIII (iv), pp 1-50.
* Hutchinson, Carole (1989). The Hermit Monks of Grandmont . Cisterian Publications, Kalamazoo
* Leather, Ella Mary (1912). The Folklore of Herefordshire . (Reprint 1991 Lapridge, Hereford)
* Llewellin, RC (1919). St Clodock: British King and Martyr . John Heywood Ltd, Manchester
* Longtown Millennium Committee (2000). The Longtown Millennium Domesday Books
Marshall, George (1938) 'The Norman Occupation of the Lands in the Golden Valley, Ewyas, and Clifford and their Motte and Bailey Castles, Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalist' Field Club, pp 141-158, Herford
Morris, R and R Williams (1991). Notes on the history of Longtown, or Ewias Lacy, and the structural development of the castle. Hereford Archaeology Series 104, Hereford Archaeology Unit
Pritchard, C and Davies, G (2002). Eskleyside Agricultural Society 1897-2002 . Imagin, Hereford
*Olchon Development Project (1999). Six documents reporting on: Environment and Land Use; Field Name Survey;
Local History; Rural Business Needs; Stone Walls and Stiles; Tourism . (Available in Hereford Library and Herefordshire Record Office)
*Olding, Frank (2000). The Prehistoric Landscape of the Eastern Black Mountains . British Archaeological Reports (British Series) 197, Oxford
* Ray, Keith (2001). 'Archaeology and the Three Early Churches of Herefordshire' , in: Ann Malpas (ed) The Early Church in Herefordshire. Leominster History Study Group
*Remfrey, Paul (1996). Longtown Castle 1048 to 1241 . SCS Press, Malvern Link
*Robinson, Charles J (1869). A History of the Castles of Herefordshire and their Lords . Longmans, London
Rollason, Lynda (1975). The Boundaries of the Herefordshire Charters in the Book of Llandaff. Unpublished dissertation, University of Birmingham (available in Hereford Library)
* Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in England (1931).  An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire: Vol I, South-west . HMSO
Shoesmith, Ron (1996). Castles and Moated Sites of Herefordshire . Logaston Press, Almeley
Smith, Brian S .(2004). Herefordshire Maps 1577 to 1800 . Logaston Press, Almeley
*Tuck, George J (1911). Newton Church and John Powell: A story of the Foundation .
Watt, Helen (2000). Welsh Manors and their Records . The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
*Wedell, Nina (1997) 'St Ailworth: a Celtic saint in the Black Mountains? '. Archaeologia Cambrensis, Vol CXLVI, pp 79-100
*Wedell, Nina (1998). Ewyas Lacy and the origin of Longtown. Privately published, Longtown
Wightman, WE (1966). The Lacy family in England and Normandy  1066-1194 . Clarendon, Oxford
Woolhope Club (nd). Herefordshire Field Name Survey. (separate booklet for each parish, available in Hereford Library and Herefordshire Record Office)
Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club , Transactions 1861 to present . WNFC,Hereford