How did Langhorne Manor, Pennsylvania get its name? This page provides a brief history about the naming of Langhorne Manor, the people who settled it, and the industry rising within it.
Borough established in 1890, adjoining Langhorne Borough, lying to the northwest, and separated on the southeast from South Langhorne by the New York Branch of the Reading Railway. The line between Langhorne and the Manor, roughly speaking, runs along Highland Avenue to Bellevue Avenue, Bellevue to Gillam Avenue, Gillam to Hill Street, Hill Street to Richardson Avenue, and Richardson Avenue to the southwest borough line. The borough, which takes its name from the manor of the Langhornes, first owners of the land, was the result of a residential development started before 1890 by prominent business and professional men of Langhorne and Philadelphia. The Langhorne Improvement Company aided much in giving the town its start. This organization founded the Langhorne Spring Water Company, whose plant occupies a 50-acre tract on the southwest edge of the borough. The town developed rapidly. Many of the owners of its fine homes, comprising the borough’s distinctive attraction, are people whose business calls them daily to Philadelphia. The town is beautifully laid out on streets sixty feet wide, and requirements in title deeds to the land impose restrictions as binding as zoning law regulations.