Pontesbury
Pontesbury is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, and is approximately eight miles southwest of Shrewsbury.
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.
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Getting to Pontesbury
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 76 km · Birmingham (BHX), 80 km · Manchester (MAN), 88 km
- Stations
- Minsterley railway station, 2.7 km
- Liverpool → Pontesbury85 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £10–13
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Pontesbury69 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £8–11
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Pontesbury102 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £13–18
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Pontesbury
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Pontesbury. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Pontesbury – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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