Hanwood

Great Hanwood is a civil parish in Shropshire, England.The population in 2001 was 1,023 and there were 457 households, rising to 1,090 at the 2011 Census in 494 households. Its main settlement is the village of Hanwood. Hanwood Bank is a smaller settlement adjoining Hanwood, further north-east on the A488 towards Shrewsbury.

Hanwood railway station was a station in Hanwood, Shropshire, England. The station was opened in 1861 and closed to passengers in 1960, and to goods traffic in 1964.

Hanwood Road railway station was a station in Edgebold, Shropshire, England. The station opened as Edgebold railway station, opened in 1866 and closed in 1933.

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. The Cambrian Line railway passes close to the village on its way from Shrewsbury to the west Wales coast. There was a junction from which ran the Minsterley branch line, created in 1861, passing through Pontesbury and terminating in Minsterley but this closed, as a result of the Beeching Axe, in 1967. A residential school, Cruckton Hall, is located near the village. The building of a former primary school within the village, built 1872 but closed in 1969, now serves as Cruckton Village Hall. A Royal Mail post box is in a wall at the Cruckmeole junction. The Rea Brook, historically called the Meole Brook, flows through the village. John Wood Warter (1806-1878), antiquarian and cleric and editor of the works of Robert Southey, was born at Cruckmeole.

Cruckton railway station was a station in Cruckton, Shropshire, England. The station was opened in 1913 and closed in 1933.

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.

Cruckton is a small village in Shropshire, England (grid reference SJ430103). 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 parliamentary constituency.

Annscroft is a small village in Shropshire, England. It is located on the Shrewsbury to Longden road, approximately 4 miles from Shrewsbury, with nearby hamlets Arscott and Hook-a-Gate. The village is a linear settlement, laid along the one road, and is in the civil parish of Longden. Many of the houses were 'squatter cottages' built in the 19th century to house miners working in the local collieries, which closed by 1940.There is a church at the village's north-east end: Christ Church (C of E) was built in 1868–69, by Shrewsbury architect John Laurence Randall at a cost of £1,400, raised by subscription. It is of rubble-stone with sandstone dressings, in Early English style. The church contains three war memorials: a brass plaque on the south wall of the nave in memory of Trooper William Hulston who was killed in the Boer War of 1899-1902, a marble plaque in the chancel to 18 men who died through serving in World War I and an electric blower organ with plaque to 9 men who died as a result of World War II. The churchyard contains Commonwealth war graves of a Royal Welsh Fusiliers soldier of World War I and a Royal Air Force airman of World War II.Half a mile north-west of the village is Moat Hall, a disguised timber-framed house built for the Berington family in about 1600, jetty underbuilt in brick. It gave its name to the Moat Hall Colliery, the largest mine in the vicinity, which was merged under one company with the colliery at Hanwood in 1921 and where coal ceased to be lifted in 1931.The village is home to bus and coach operator Minsterley Motors, South Shropshire Hunt Kennels, Stoneyford Riding School and The Farriers Business Park.

Edgebold is a dispersed hamlet on the western edge of Shrewsbury in Shropshire, England. It is on the A488 Shrewsbury to Bishop's Castle road.

Shorthill is a small village in Shropshire, England. It is located just off the A488, near to Hanwood and Arscott, within Pontesbury civil parish. Shorthill contains a Victorian red-brick towered church (now closed as place of worship), at Lea Cross.

Longden is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is located 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Shrewsbury.

Hook-a-Gate is a village in Shropshire, England. It is located on the Shrewsbury to Longden road, a little to the south of the A5 Shrewsbury bypass from Shrewsbury itself. Bayston Hill is nearby, though there is no direct vehicular road connecting the two villages, only a track. It was formerly a stop on the now defunct Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway. The Rea brook flows through the village. The hamlet of Redhill adjoins the village, on the north side of the Rea Brook. The village is served by one public house - the New Inn. Until 2014, the Mucky Duck (formerly Cygnets) also served as a public house in the village.