page_title: Leighton and Eaton Constantine
section_title: Mary Webb
hierarchical_section_title: Leighton and Eaton Constantine / Mary Webb
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Mary Webb who died in 1927
context_page_description: Leighton and Eaton Constantine is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It consists of the village of Leighton, together with the smaller villages or hamlets of Eaton Constantine, Upper Longwood and Garmston.
  The parish, which had a population of 420 at the 2001 census, 467 at the 2011 Census, rising from just 206 in 1911, is around six miles southwest of Telford and 26 miles from Birmingham.
context_section_description: Mary Webb was an English romantic novelist and poet of the early 20th century, who set all six of her novels in South Shropshire. The 1950 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger production of Webb's Gone to Earth was filmed in the area. In 1957 the local comprehensive school in Pontesbury, Mary Webb School and Science College, was named in her honour.
caption: Mary Webb, born in Leighton in 1881
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