Malehurst Explained

Country:England
Static Image Name:Rea Brook near Malehurst Farm - geograph.org.uk - 790364.jpg
Static Image Caption:Rea Brook near Malehurst Farm
Coordinates:52.651°N -2.912°W
Official Name:Malehurst
Civil Parish:Pontesbury
Unitary England:Shropshire
Lieutenancy England:Shropshire
Region:West Midlands
Constituency Westminster:Shrewsbury and Atcham
Post Town:SHREWSBURY
Postcode District:SY5
Postcode Area:SY
Dial Code:01743
Os Grid Reference:SJ383063

Malehurst is a hamlet in Shropshire, England between the large villages of Pontesbury and Minsterley and north of the small village of Asterley. It is within the civil parish of Pontesbury.

The Rea Brook flows around Malehurst and the Minsterley Brook flows into the Rea Brook here.

There is an industrial estate that accommodates a number of small businesses. There is also a highly successful dairy farm.

There was a lead smelting house at Malehurst, operated with a Boulton and Watt steam engine, between 1778 and it is going out of use by 1831.[1] A barytes-processing plant was established at Malehurst Mill in c.1910, linked by an aerial ropeway to a mine at Huglith, until 1949 when the ropeway was taken down. The buildings became used to mill animal foodstuffs.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Gaydon & Lawson, A.T. & J.B.. A History of Pontesbury. 1982. Shropshire Libraries. 279. Reprint from Victoria County History of Shropshire, Volume VIII, published 1968.
  2. Book: A History of Pontesbury. 281.