Adbaston
| Adbaston | |
| Staffordshire | |
|---|---|
 The Parish Church of Saint Michael and All Angels | |
| Location | |
| Location: | 52°50’53"N, 2°21’16"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 561 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Stafford |
| Postcode: | ST20 |
| Dialling code: | 01785 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Stafford |
Adbaston is a village and a parish in Staffordshire, some 13 miles north-east of the county town of Stafford, and 18 miles south-east of Stoke on Trent. The nearest railway station is at Stone. The nearest main roads are the A41 which passes the village five miles to the south-west. 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
Domesday Book
Adbaston is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086. In the survey the village has the name Edboldestone[2] In the survey the settlement was described as quite small with only 5.8 households.[3] 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 held by Robert, Bishop of Chester. Before that the lord of the manor was said to have been previously Leofwine, Bishop of Lichfield.
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.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Adbaston) |
- Adbaston in the Domesday Book
References
- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11119827&c=Adbaston&d=16&e=62&g=6464581&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1448994892344&enc=1. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ↑ The Domesday Book, Englands Heritage, Then and Now, Editor: Thomas Hinde, Staffordshire Section: ISBN 1858334403
- ↑ "Adbaston" (by Anna Powell-Smith. Domesday data created by Professor J.J.N. Palmer, University of Hull.). Open Domesday. http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SJ7627/adbaston/. Retrieved 2013-04-19.