Adbaston

Adbaston
The Parish Church of Saint Michael and All Angels
Adbaston Location within Staffordshire
Population	561 (2011) [1]
•  London	153 miles
District	Stafford
Shire county	Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	STAFFORD
Postcode district	ST20
Dialling code	01785
Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Stafford
List of places UK England Staffordshire 52°50′53″N2°21′16″W / 52.8481°N 2.35444°W / 52.8481; -2.35444

Adbaston is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Staffordshire. ^{[2] [3]}

Location

The village is 13 miles (20.9 km) north east of the town of Stafford, and 18.4 miles (29.6 km) south east of Stoke on Trent. The nearest railway station is at Stone. The nearest main roads are the A41 which passes the village 4.7 miles (7.6 km) to the south west. ^[4] The village is situated approximately halfway between towns of Eccleshall and Newport, Shropshire, and near the villages and hamlets of Cheswardine, Shropshire, and Woodseaves, High Offley and Knighton, Staffordshire.

History

Etymology

The name Adbaston is derived from the Anglo-Saxon personal name Eadbald and means 'Eadbald‘s town'; ^[5] it was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Edboldestone and in the 12th and 13th century as Adbaldestone, Alboldestun, and Albaldiston. ^[6]

Domesday Book

Adbaston is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086; in the survey the village has the name Edboldestone. ^[7] In the survey the settlement was described as quite small with only 5.8 households. ^[8] Other assets included 17 villager or villein , meadow of 15 acres, 40 smallholders and 1 slave. There was also 25 ploughlands (land for), 3 lord's plough teams, 13 men's plough teams. In 1066 the lord of the manor was Robert, Bishop of Chester. Before that the lord of the manor was said to have been previously Leofwine Bishop of Lichfield.

Present day

The village contains a church, "St Michael and All Angels", and a phone box. There was once a school but it closed due to diminishing numbers of children.

See also

• Listed buildings in Adbaston

References

1. "Civil Parish population 2011". Archived from the original on 9 December 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
2. OS Explorer Map 243: Market Drayton, Loggerheads and Eccleshall: (1:25 000) : ISBN   0 319 46413 X
3. Map Details Archived 28 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 18 April 2013
4. - Staffordshire A-Z County Atlas: 2011 Edition: Scale:3.8 inches to 1 mile (5.9cm to 1km) ISBN   978 1 84348 748 7
5. "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 29 June 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
6. Duigan, W. H. (1902). Notes on Staffordshire Place Names. London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press. p. 2.
7. The Domesday Book, Englands Heritage, Then and Now, Editor: Thomas Hinde, Staffordshire Section: ISBN   1858334403
8. "Adbaston". Open Domesday. Archived from the original (by Anna Powell-Smith. Domesday data created by Professor J.J.N. Palmer, University of Hull.) on 26 May 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013.

External links

• Media related to Adbaston at Wikimedia Commons
• Adbaston in the Domesday Book