Adbaston
{{Short description|Civil parish in Staffordshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2025}}{{Infobox UK place
|country = England
|official_name= Adbaston
|coordinates = {{coord|52.8481|-2.35444|display=inline,title}}
|population =561
|shire_district= Stafford
|shire_county = Staffordshire
|region= West Midlands
|constituency_westminster= Stafford
|post_town=STAFFORD
|postcode_district =ST20
|postcode_area=ST
|dial_code=01785
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|static_image_name= Church of St Michael and All Angels, Adbaston - geograph.org.uk - 1804019.jpg
|static_image_caption=The Parish Church of Saint Michael and All Angels
|london_distance=153 miles
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Adbaston is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Staffordshire.OS Explorer Map 243: Market Drayton, Loggerheads and Eccleshall: (1:25 000) :{{ISBN|0 319 46413 X}}[http://www.shop.ordnancesurveyleisure.co.uk/products/paper-maps/paper-maps-ordnance-survey-great-britain/paper-maps-ordnance-survey-great-britain-os-explorer-map/market-drayton/pid-9780319237403 Map Details] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728081340/http://www.shop.ordnancesurveyleisure.co.uk/products/paper-maps/paper-maps-ordnance-survey-great-britain/paper-maps-ordnance-survey-great-britain-os-explorer-map/market-drayton/pid-9780319237403 |date=28 July 2013 }} retrieved 18 April 2013
Location
The village is {{convert|13|mi|km|1}} north east of the town of Stafford, and {{convert|18.4|mi|km|1}} south east of Stoke on Trent. The nearest railway station is at Stone. The nearest main roads are the A41 which passes the village {{convert|4.7|mi|km|1}} to the south west.- Staffordshire A-Z County Atlas: 2011 Edition: Scale:3.8 inches to 1 mile (5.9cm to 1km){{ISBN|978 1 84348 748 7}} 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';{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Staffordshire/Adbaston|title=Key to English Place-names|website=kepn.nottingham.ac.uk|access-date=7 August 2021|archive-date=29 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629081836/http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Staffordshire/Adbaston|url-status=live}} it was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Edboldestone and in the 12th and 13th century as Adbaldestone, Alboldestun, and Albaldiston.{{cite book |last1=Duigan |first1=W. H. |title=Notes on Staffordshire Place Names |date=1902 |publisher=Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press |location=London |page=2 |url= https://archive.org/stream/notesonstaffords00duigiala?ref=ol#page/2/mode/2up}}
= Domesday Book =
Adbaston is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086; in the survey the village has the name Edboldestone.The Domesday Book, Englands Heritage, Then and Now, Editor: Thomas Hinde, Staffordshire Section: {{ISBN|1858334403}} In the survey the settlement was described as quite small with only 5.8 households.{{cite web| website= Open Domesday| url= http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SJ7627/adbaston/| format= by Anna Powell-Smith. Domesday data created by Professor J.J.N. Palmer, University of Hull.| title= Adbaston| accessdate= 2013-04-19| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130526095151/http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SJ7627/adbaston/| archive-date= 26 May 2013| url-status= dead}} 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
References
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External links
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- {{OpenDomesday|SJ7627|adbaston|Adbaston}}
{{Civil Parishes of Stafford}}
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