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    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...
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    Stiperstones (early Ordovician – Arenig Epoch, 500 Ma) runs parallel with the Pontesford-Linley fault, 6 km north-west of the Long Mynd in south Shropshire. Also...
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    volcanic activity, and saw the county temporarily split in two, along the Pontesford – Linley fault line. Everything west of this line was ocean, while the...
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    representing the village and outlying areas such as the villages and hamlets of Pontesford, Plealey, Asterley, Cruckton, Cruckmeole, Arscott, Lea Cross, Malehurst...
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    to the Great Western Railway's Minsterley branch line. Coal from the Pontesford coal mines travelled in the opposite direction. The line ended at Snailbeach...
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    Workhouse Brook, Aston Brook, Asterley Brook, Westbury Brook  • right Minsterley Brook, Pontesford Brook, Clan Brook, Bran Brook, Money Brook, Sutton Spa...
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    Plealey is a small village in Shropshire, England. It is located between Pontesford and Longden. The village lies in the parish of Pontesbury, being represented...
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    was associated with dextral (right-lateral) strike-slip movement in the Pontesford-Linley fault system and folding in pre-Ashgill strata, uplift of the adjacent...
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  • northwest by the Menai Strait Fault System and to the southeast by the Pontesford Lineament. The geological terrane to the west is the Monian Composite...
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    over 560 million years ago. On 2 April 1990, another nearby fault – the Pontesford-Linley Fault – registered an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 on the...
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