Shropshire village, 7 miles SW of Shrewsbury.
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) visited a friend, Frederick Carter, at his Pontesbury home in 1924 and later depicted local scenes and people in his short novel St. Mawr (1925).
Mary Webb (1881-1927) lived here with her husband Henry (pen name Henry Clayton) at Roseville in Hinton Lane and wrote her first novel The Golden Arrow (1916). They later rented a cottage near to the village at The Nills.
Location map of Pontesbury courtesy of Streetmap.co.uk
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