Hanwood
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Hanwood
Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 19 Mar 2018
Houses in a former industrial village on the Shrewsbury coalfield. Barytes from the Stiperstones was processed here and there was also a brickworks and colliery. The railway station is long gone, but the Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth railway line runs past the village.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.681391
Longitude
-2.826379