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Pontesbury
Pontesbury ( ) is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, and is approximately eight miles southwest of Shrewsbury. In the 2011 census, the village had a population of 1,873 and the parish had a population of 3,227. The village of Minsterley is just over a mile further southwest. The A488 road runs through the village, on its way from Shrewsbury to Bishop's Castle. The Rea Brook flows close by to the north with the village itself nestling on the northern edge of the Shropshire Hills AONB. Shropshire Council in their 2015 Place Plan detail the development strategy and refer to Pontesbury and neighbouring Minsterley as towns. Local government The village is the seat of an extensive civil parish, with its own parish council grouped into five wards, representing the village and outlying areas such as the villages and hamlets of Pontesford, Plealey, Asterley, Cruckton, Cruckmeole, Arscott, Lea Cross, Malehurst etc., as well as Habberley (which was previously a civil pari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asterley
Asterley is a village in Shropshire, England. Its name, derived from Old English, means "the eastern clearing in the forest".Raven, M. ''A Guide to Shropshire'', 2005, p.16 It was historically a township of the large parish of Pontesbury,Pontesbury , and is still part of the of Pontesbury. It consists of some 50 houses, including some timber- and cruck-framed dwellings. There are four farms operating within the village and an equestrian estate. There is a brick former |
Plealey
Plealey is a small village in Shropshire, England. It is located between Pontesford and Longden. Local governance The village lies in the parish of Pontesbury, being represented within the Plealey Ward of its Parish Council (whose territory also includes the smaller hamlets of Little Plealey, Arscott, and Radleth, and has a population of 122 (2001 Census). In common with the rest of Pontesbury parish it is represented on the unitary Shropshire Council and in parliament in the Shrewsbury constituency. The village Plealey was first documented in 1308 as Plealeye, in which year there were 27 tenants of the local manor resident.Reprint extract from ''Victoria County History of Shropshire, Volume VIII'' (1968). Now most of the village is a conservation area with 14 listed buildings, including the Methodist Chapel, and houses "Brookgate" (oldest parts 15th century) and "The Den" (17th century, built as a "worker's hovel"). Another house, Galliers Farm, was occupied as a summer resi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snailbeach District Railways
Snailbeach District Railways was a British narrow gauge railway in Shropshire. It was built to carry lead ore from mines in the Stiperstones to Pontesbury where the ore was transshipment, transshipped to the Great Western Railway's Minsterley branch line. Coal from the Pontesford coal mines travelled in the opposite direction. The line ended at Snailbeach, the location of Shropshire's largest and richest lead mine, though there had been a plan to extend it further, which would have brought it closer to more lead mines. History The railway was incorporated by act of parliament on 5 August 1873 and opened in 1877. It was built with an unusual Rail gauge, gauge of . The line was prosperous at first, carrying annually and paying a 3% dividend. However, in 1884, the Tankerville Great Consols Company mine, the largest user of the railway, closed, and tonnage fell to . In 1905, the Ceirog Granite Company opened a quarry near Habberley, Shropshire, Habberley, and a branch was built ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruckton
Cruckton is a small village in Shropshire, England (). Cruckton is situated approximately five miles from Shrewsbury town centre, off the B4386 road to Montgomery, Powys. The postcode begins SY5. It is within the civil parish of Pontesbury and the Shrewsbury and Atcham (UK Parliament constituency), Shrewsbury and Atcham parliamentary constituency. Village In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's ''The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' described Cruckton like this: "CRUCKTON, a chapelry, with a village, in Pontesbury parish, Salop; 3 miles WSW of Shrewsbury town and r[ailway]. station. Post town, Shrewsbury. Real property,[value] £4,981. Pop[ulation]., 155. The property is divided among a few. Cruckton Hall is the seat of the Harrieses. The living is a p[erpetual]. curacy, annexed to the second Pontesbury rectory, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is good." The village has a crescent of council house, council-built houses, called Church Close (originally Rural Cottages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arscott
Arscott is a small hamlet in Shropshire, England. It is near to Plealey, Shorthill and Annscroft and within the civil parish of Pontesbury. The hamlet is spread out along Pound Lane and has a number of Victorian cottages associated with the local farms or coal mines working as early as 1838, the last closing in 1919. Nearby is the hamlet of Arscott Villa, which adjoins Annscroft. There is an 18-hole golf course at Arscott, which opened in 1992 and is the home of the Arscott Golf Club. See also *Listed buildings in Pontesbury Pontesbury is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 93 Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, five are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the ... References External links Hamlets in Shropshire {{Shropshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habberley, Shropshire
Habberley is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Pontesbury, in the Shropshire district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. Habberley lies near the Stiperstones southwest of the town of Shrewsbury. Formerly a small () civil parish in its own right Habberley was merged in to the Pontesbury civil parish on 1 April 1967. Its main amenities are a small Anglican church (St Mary's), a public house (''The Mytton Arms''), and village hall. In 1824 its population was recorded as 151 - by 1961 this had declined to 66 but residential development such as the conversion of redundant farm buildings has seen it rise again to about 100 residents in 2012. Mary Webb, the romantic novelist, called the place and surrounding district 'Bitterley' in her 1916 novel ''The Golden Arrow''. < ...
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Malehurst
Malehurst is a hamlet in Shropshire, England between the large villages of Pontesbury and Minsterley and north of the small village of Asterley. It is within the civil parish of Pontesbury. The Rea Brook flows around Malehurst and the Minsterley Brook flows into the Rea Brook here. There is an industrial estate that accommodates a number of small businesses. There is also a highly successful dairy farm. There was a lead smelting house at Malehurst, operated with a Boulton and Watt steam engine, between 1778 and it is going out of use by 1831. A barytes-processing plant was established at Malehurst Mill in c.1910, linked by an aerial ropeway to a mine at Huglith, until 1949 when the ropeway was taken down. The buildings became used to mill animal foodstuffs. See also *Listed buildings in Pontesbury Pontesbury is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 93 Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Webb School And Science College
Mary Webb School and Science College is a coeducational secondary school located in Pontesbury, Shropshire, England. Founded in 1957, it was originally titled Pontesbury Secondary Modern School. In 1977, following the abolition of the tripartite system, the school became a comprehensive school. The Mary Webb School, named after the novelist and poet of the same name, was designated a specialist Science College in 2003. Previously a community school administered by Shropshire Council, in January 2019 Mary Webb School converted to academy status. The school is now sponsored by the Central Shropshire Academy Trust. Academics The school received a rating of "good" (overall) and "outstanding" in the area of leadership and management from Ofsted during the May 2015 inspection. Former pupils ;Mary Webb School * David Edwards, footballer, Reading F.C. and Wales Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shropshire
Shropshire (; abbreviated SalopAlso used officially as the name of the county from 1974–1980. The demonym for inhabitants of the county "Salopian" derives from this name.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England, on the England–Wales border, border with Wales. It is bordered by Cheshire to the north-east, Staffordshire to the east, Worcestershire to the south-east, Herefordshire to the south, and the Welsh principal areas of Powys and Wrexham County Borough, Wrexham to the west and north-west respectively. The largest settlement is Telford, while Shrewsbury is the county town. The county has an area of and a population of 498,073. Telford in the east and Shrewsbury in the centre are the largest towns. Shropshire is otherwise rural, and contains market towns such as Oswestry in the north-west, Market Drayton in the north-east, Bridgnorth in the south-east, and Ludlow in the south. For Local government i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruckmeole
Cruckmeole is a small hamlet in Shropshire, England. It is located on the A488, where a lane which connects Cruckmeole to the B4386 crossroads at Cruckton forms a three way junction near to Hanwood. It is within the civil parish of Pontesbury. Etymology Cruckmeole's name is first attested in 1291 or 1292, in the forms ''Crokmele'' and ''Crokemele''. There are two competing etymologies. The first element, also found in nearby Cruckton, could be from the Old English word ("cruck-framed building"). If so, the second part of the name comes from the Meole Brook, on which the settlement stands, and whose own name could come from Old English ("meal, flour") on account of its putatively cloudy colour. Alternatively, the name could come from the Common Brittonic words found today in modern Welsh as ("hillock") and ("bare"). In this interpretation, the name of the settlement once meant "bare hillock". When the dominant language of the area became English, English-speakers, no longe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pontesford
Pontesford is a small village in Shropshire, England. It is located on the A488 road, A488 outside the large village of Pontesbury, southwest of Shrewsbury. The population as taken at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census can be found under Pontesbury. It approximates to the northern extremity of the Pontesford-Linley geological fault, which trends approximately 11 miles to Linley, More, Linley near Bishops Castle. On 2 April 1990, the Pontesford-Linley, More, Linley Geologic fault, Fault - registered an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter magnitude scale, Richter scale, known as the 1990 Bishop's Castle earthquake, Bishop's Castle earthquake. Coal was mined there in the 19th century. Pontesford Hill To its south is Pontesford Hill, which adjoins the foot of Earls Hill, the latter property of the Shropshire Wildlife Trust. Pontesford Hill was property of the Forestry Commission until it was sold to a private owner, Simon Hutchen, in 2010. Hutchen challenge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanwood
Hanwood is a large village in Shropshire, England. It is located SW of Shrewsbury town centre, on the A488 road. The A5 road (Great Britain), A5 is only a mile away. The Cambrian Line runs through the village but there is no longer a Hanwood railway station, railway station here. It was closed in 1964, as a result of the Beeching Axe. The nearest working passenger station is at Shrewsbury railway station, Shrewsbury. The Rea Brook flows through the village and the village is laid along the floor of a small valley. The village forms the main of the civil parishes in England, civil parish of Great Hanwood. Etymology It is thought Hanwood derives its name from the Teutonic word "Han" or "Hane", meaning "cock", denoting a large number of woodcock living in what were then extensive woods of the vicinity. In the Domesday Book of 1086, it is named "Hanewde". Village facilities Hanwood has a small combined post office and shop, a garage (but no longer a petrol station), a public h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
