PONTESBURY, a parish in the hundred of FORD, county of SALOP, comprising the chapelry of Longdon, and the townships of Cruckton, Edge, and Pontesbury, and containing, with Little Hanwood, 2458 inhabitants, of which number, 1322 are in the township of Pontesbury, 7 miles (S. W. by W.) from. Shrewsbury. The living is a rectory, in three .portions; the. first is rated in. the king's books at £ 17. 13.4., arid in the patronage of the Rev. Ham. Harrison; the second also at £ 17 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of Queen's College, Oxford; and the third at &8. 10., and in the patronage of W. E. Owen, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. George, was formerly collegiate, including a dean and three prebendaries; it has lately received an addition of three hundred and twenty sittings, of which three . hundred are free, the Incorporated: Society for the -enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £200 for that purpose. There is a place of worship for Baptists. Lead mines are worked here to a considerable extent.