Longland, Salisbury

Longland is to the west of Salisbury, just off from the Wilton Road.

It is mentioned in the Victoria County History:

In 1790, the year of inclosure, we read of four fields: Church, North, Middle, and St. Ann’s Stile (or Little) Fields. (fn. 205) Long Lands or Brick Field may perhaps be reckoned a fifth.¹

The next footnote says:

Longlands in the extreme west of the par. is marked on the tithe map (1843). It was not then a brickfield.(²)

A brickfield is a place where bricks are made and sold ³

Presumably Longlands is a reference to the shape of the field. It could relate to the surname, which in turn is either about the shape of a field or from Langland in Scotland.

The surname was given originally either as a topographical name to a person resident by a long piece of agricultural land, or as a locational name for someone from the barony of Langland in Peeblesshire⁴

Footnotes

1. ‘Fisherton Anger’, A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 6 (1962), pp. 180-194. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41809 Date accessed: 11 June 2010. [↩]
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3. brickfield – definition of brickfield by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. [↩]
4. SurnameDB: Longland surname meaning [↩]