 Longparish is situated on the northwest bank of the River Test.In 2011 the population (including Firgo and Forton) was 716.The name Longparish was first used in the mid-16th-century and is derived from a nickname for the "long parish" of Middleton — consisting of the settlements of Middleton, East Aston, West Aston and Forton — which stretched some four miles along the River Test.