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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,870 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Pontesbury, Shropshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mary Webb School and Science College and Church of St Mary.
Mary Webb School and Science College
School
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.
Plealey Methodist Church
Church
Plealey Methodist Church is situated 1½ miles northeast of Pontesbury.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pontesford and Malehurst.
Pontesford
Hamlet
Photo: John Firth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pontesford is a small village in Shropshire, England. It is located on the A488 outside the large village of Pontesbury, southwest of Shrewsbury. The population as taken at the 2011 census can be found under Pontesbury.
Malehurst
Hamlet
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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.
Habberley
Hamlet
Photo: Jeremy Bolwell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Pontesbury
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Pontesbury, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.64812° or 52° 38′ 53″ northLongitude
-2.88918° or 2° 53′ 21″ westPopulation
1,870Elevation
354 feet (108 metres)Open location code
9C4VJ4X6+68OpenStreetMap ID
node 268227908OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2640129Wikidata ID
Q3878864
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Pontesbury” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Pontesbury”
- Catalan: “Pontesbury”
- Cebuano: “Pontesbury”
- Chinese: “庞德斯布理”
- Chinese: “龐德斯布理”
- Dutch: “Pontesbury”
- French: “Pontesbury”
- Irish: “Pontesbury”
- Italian: “Pontesbury”
- Japanese: “ポンテスベリー”
- Ladin: “Pontesbury”
- Persian: “پانتزبری”
- Polish: “Pontesbury”
- Spanish: “Pontesbury”
- Swedish: “Pontesbury”
- Turkish: “Pontesbury”
- Volapük: “Pontesbury”
- Welsh: “Pontesbury”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Pontesbury Hill and Polesgate.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include School Green and Saint George’s Church.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pontesbury”. Photo: al partington, CC BY-SA 2.0.