Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Pontesbury. You may be able to find further references to Pontesbury in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Pontesbury	parish and village with railway station	Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Pontesbury.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Arscott	place	Bartholomew
ARSCOTT	a township	Imperial
Asterley	township	Bartholomew
ASTERLEY	a township	Imperial
Boycott	locality	Bartholomew
BOYCOTT	a township	Imperial
Cruckmeole	hamlet with school	Bartholomew
CRUCKMEOLE	a township	Imperial
Cruckton	village	Bartholomew
CRUCKTON	a chapelry, with a village	Imperial
Edge	hamlet	Bartholomew
EDGE	a township	Imperial
Fairley	hamlet	Bartholomew
FAIRLEY	a township	Imperial
Ford Heath	hamlet	Bartholomew
Halston	hamlet	Bartholomew
HALSTON	a township	Imperial
Hanwood, Little	hamlet	Bartholomew
HANWOOD (LITTLE)	a township	Imperial
Hinton	hamlet	Bartholomew
HINTON	a township	Imperial
Horton	hamlet	Bartholomew
LEA	a township	Imperial
Longden	curacy	Bartholomew
LONGDON	a chapelry	Imperial
NEWNHAM	a township	Imperial
NOX	a township	Imperial
OAKS	a township	Imperial
ONSLOW	a hamlet	Imperial
PLEALEY	a township	Imperial
Plealey Road	railway station	Bartholomew
PONTESFORD	a township	Imperial
SASCOTT	a township	Imperial
SIBBERSCOTT	a township	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Pontesbury within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Arthur Young	1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Plealey	0	2
Longden	0	2
Cruckton	4	2
Yockleton	0	2
Stoney Stretton	0	1
Great Hanwood	0	2
Habberley	0	2
Horton	0	3
Church Pulverbach	2	4
Cardeston	0	2
Chatford	0	2
Ford	0	3
Stapleton	0	2
Minsterley	0	2
Meole Brace	0	3
Westbury	0	2
Condover	1	3
Bayston Hill	0	2
Dorrington	0	2
Montford	0	3