About the town » Longworth, Oxfordshire, England, Great Britain

Longworth is a village and civil parish about 7 miles west of Abingdon-on-Thames and a similar distance east of Faringdon and south of Witney. It is located in the historic county of Berkshire, however, since 1974 for administration purposes the village is located in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire. Forthcoming boundary changes will add the hamlet of Newbridge to the parish of Longworth. Longworth parish stretches between the River Thames in the north and the River Ock in the south. Harrowdown Hill, in the north of the parish near the Thames, is where biological warfare expert David Kelly died (or committed suicide) during the Second Gulf War WMD scandal. Sir Henry Marten, a 17th century Judge of the Admiralty Court, and his son, Henry Marten, the regicide, lived at Longworth House.