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Langhorne is a small borough in Bucks County that was incorporated in 1876, and it covers only about half a square mile roughly six miles west of the Delaware River.

Langhorne was known as Attleborough for most of its early history, and it was renamed at incorporation for Jeremiah Langhorne, an early local resident who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Langhorne grew up at the crossing of old Lenni-Lenape paths, where Joseph Richardson opened a store and inn in the 1730s.

Langhorne became the stagecoach transportation hub of Bucks County on the road between Trenton and Philadelphia, passing through names like Four Lanes End and Richardsons Corner along the way.

Langhorne had 1,643 residents at the 2020 census, living in roughly 560 households that average about two and a half people each.

Much of Langhorne's housing stock predates World War II, and the Langhorne Historic District, the Joseph Richardson House, the Tomlinson-Huddleston House and the former Langhorne Library are all listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Children in Langhorne attend schools in the Neshaminy School District — Tawanka Elementary School, Maple Point Middle School and Neshaminy High School.

Cairn University sits just south of the borough line in Langhorne Manor and Middletown Township, adding a college presence to the Langhorne area.

The Langhorne mailing address and ZIP code 19047 reach far beyond the tiny borough, covering most of surrounding Middletown Township — which is why Sesame Place theme park carries a Langhorne address even though it physically stands in Middletown Township.

Folk artist Edward Hicks, the devout Quaker painter famous for The Peaceable Kingdom, was born in Attleboro, as Langhorne was then called.