| Description | Notes on the history of Longford Castle and its owners, including the Cervington family, the earlier holders of the manor, the Gorges family - with a letter concerning them from the antiquarian Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) - the Scropes of Castle Combe, Wewelsberg (the castle in Germany upon which Longford was supposed to have been modelled) and extracts from the burial parish register of Britford that concern soldiers in the Civil War period |