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Plealey is an attractive village approximately five miles south and west of Shrewsbury. It lies in the Parish of Pontesbury, just of the A488 Bishops Castle Road. (Rea-Valley Wiki entry with map)
The village lies on rising ground at about the 125-metre contour and sheltered by higher ground on two sides. There are fine unobscured views across Long Mountain, and further to the Berwyns. Plealey is at the edge of the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 122.
![The Den is the sole surviving tradesman's cottage at the crossroads.
This secondary settlement in the vicinity of the cross roads west of the village was recorded first in 1626 only the Den survives intact.
Although outside the actual conservation area it is the long term objective of Shropshire Council to have the building rethatched and repaired in its current form, thus retaining a rare survival of a distint but now obselete building type.
Grade II listed
[tag:Plealey Grade_II_Listed]](http://rea-valley.com/mediagallery/mediaobjects/tn/9/9_dsc_4881.jpg "The Den is the sole surviving tradesman's cottage at the crossroads.
This secondary settlement in the vicinity of the cross roads west of the village was recorded first in 1626 only the Den survives intact.
Although outside the actual conservation area it is the long term objective of Shropshire Council to have the building rethatched and repaired in its current form, thus retaining a rare survival of a distint but now obselete building type.
Grade II listed
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![Side view of the Den description [mlink:20090313134100241 see main picture].
[tag:Plealey Grade_II_Listed]](http://rea-valley.com/mediagallery/mediaobjects/tn/0/0_dsc_4883.jpg "Side view of the Den description [mlink:20090313134100241 see main picture].
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![West of the village the Pontesbury road crosses the road to Pulverbatch. Cottages of tradesmen and farm workers were found on the roads radiating from the crossing during the 17th to 19th Centuries, however all that remains today is the small dwelling known as The Den. The old forge which this picture depicts is now obscured by later extensions.
[tag:Plealey]](http://rea-valley.com/mediagallery/mediaobjects/tn/e/e_dsc_4882.jpg "West of the village the Pontesbury road crosses the road to Pulverbatch. Cottages of tradesmen and farm workers were found on the roads radiating from the crossing during the 17th to 19th Centuries, however all that remains today is the small dwelling known as The Den. The old forge which this picture depicts is now obscured by later extensions.
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![Village street view - building in the centre is Rose Cottage.
[tag:Plealey]](http://rea-valley.com/mediagallery/mediaobjects/tn/f/f_dsc_4888.jpg "Village street view - building in the centre is Rose Cottage.
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![A fine example of a Victorian postbox
The box was made by WT Allen and Company Limited and is a C size wall box from 1881.
Notice on the small C size box the aperture has been modified to accept larger envelopes. That was a 1960s modification to 10,000 mostly Victorian and Edwardian boxes accomplished over three years by one man with a Land Rover and an oxyacetylene torch.
Box reference SY5 162
[tag:Plealey postboxes]](http://rea-valley.com/mediagallery/mediaobjects/tn/b/b_dsc_4885.jpg "A fine example of a Victorian postbox
The box was made by WT Allen and Company Limited and is a C size wall box from 1881.
Notice on the small C size box the aperture has been modified to accept larger envelopes. That was a 1960s modification to 10,000 mostly Victorian and Edwardian boxes accomplished over three years by one man with a Land Rover and an oxyacetylene torch.
Box reference SY5 162
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![Notice Board and postbox.
[tag:Plealey postboxes]](http://rea-valley.com/mediagallery/mediaobjects/tn/f/f_dsc_4884.jpg "Notice Board and postbox.
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![Galliers Farmhouse was occupied as a summer residence by Edward Waring, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge c1788-98. The north front was added by Riucard France in the early part of the 19th century. Grade II listed.
[tag:Plealey Grade_II_Listed]](http://rea-valley.com/mediagallery/mediaobjects/tn/b/b_dsc_4913.jpg "Galliers Farmhouse was occupied as a summer residence by Edward Waring, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge c1788-98. The north front was added by Riucard France in the early part of the 19th century. Grade II listed.
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![The Methodist Chapel was founded by Richard France in 1828. Originally Congregational, it became a Baptist Chapel in the 1830's following its founder's change of religious beleifs and for similar reasons it changed to a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in 1851.
It is a painted brick building typical of modest ecclesiastical design of the time.
[tag:Plealey Grade_II_Listed Churches]](http://rea-valley.com/mediagallery/mediaobjects/tn/c/c_dsc_4908.jpg "The Methodist Chapel was founded by Richard France in 1828. Originally Congregational, it became a Baptist Chapel in the 1830's following its founder's change of religious beleifs and for similar reasons it changed to a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in 1851.
It is a painted brick building typical of modest ecclesiastical design of the time.
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![Also Grade II listed is the memorial to France behind the church, it consists of a limestone chest tomb and railed enclosure.
[tag:Plealey Grade_II_Listed Churches]](http://rea-valley.com/mediagallery/mediaobjects/tn/d/d_dsc_4911.jpg "Also Grade II listed is the memorial to France behind the church, it consists of a limestone chest tomb and railed enclosure.
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![The memorial to Richard France showing the inscription.
[tag:Plealey Grade_II_Listed Churches]](http://rea-valley.com/mediagallery/mediaobjects/tn/a/a_dsc_4910.jpg "The memorial to Richard France showing the inscription.
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