Pontesford

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Coordinates: 52°39′11″N 2°52′26″W / 52.653°N 2.874°W / 52.653; -2.874 Pontesford is a small village in Shropshire, England.

It is located on the A488 outside the large village of Pontesbury.

It approximates to the northern extremity of the Pontesford-Linley geological fault, which trends approximately 11 miles to Linley near Bishops Castle. On 2 April 1990, the Pontesford-Linley Fault - registered an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale, known as the Bishop's Castle earthquake.[ 1][ 1]

References

  1. ↑ Geo-Science World, The Pontesford Lineament, Welsh Borderland N. H. Woodcock
  2. ↑ "Official Town site". Retrieved 20 November 2007. 

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