Abdon
Abdon is an upland village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Abdon and Heath, in Shropshire, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 199. It is in the Clee Hills.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 181 residents
- Description: village in Shropshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Abdon, Shropshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brown Clee Hill and Nordy Bank.
Brown Clee Hill
Peak
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brown Clee Hill is the highest hill in the rural English county of Shropshire, at 540 metres above sea level. It is one of the Clee Hills, and is in the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Nordy Bank
Archaeological site
Photo: Bill Rowley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nordy Bank is an Iron Age hill fort on Brown Clee Hill in the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in South Shropshire, England.
Heath Chapel
Church
Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Heath Chapel is located in an isolated position in a field in the former civil parish of Heath, Shropshire, England. It is an Anglican chapel in the deanery of Ludlow, the archdeaconry of Ludlow, and the diocese of Hereford.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Clee St. Margaret and Tugford.
Clee St. Margaret
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clee St. Margaret is a small village and civil parish in the Clee Hills area of Shropshire, England. It is seven miles north east from the market town of Ludlow.
Tugford
Village
Photo: Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tugford is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Abdon and Heath, in the Shropshire district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England.
Ditton Priors
Village
Photo: Gammock, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ditton Priors is a village and civil parish in south Shropshire, England. Historically, it was also known as Priors Ditton. The nearest town is Bridgnorth. The village is situated near Shropshire's highest hill, Brown Clee Hill. Ditton Priors is situated 2½ miles northeast of Abdon.
Abdon
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.4742° or 52° 28′ 27″ northLongitude
-2.6261° or 2° 37′ 34″ westPopulation
181Elevation
617 feet (188 metres)Open location code
9C4VF9FF+MHOpenStreetMap ID
node 335522945OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7292247Wikidata ID
Q4665129
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Abdon” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Абдон”
- Cebuano: “Abdon”
- Dutch: “Abdon, Shropshire”
- French: “Abdon”
- Irish: “Abdon”
- Ladin: “Abdon”
- Latin: “Abbetona”
- Polish: “Abdon (Shropshire)”
- Polish: “Abdon”
- Swedish: “Abdon (distrikt i Storbritannien)”
- Swedish: “Abdon, England”
- Welsh: “Abdon, Swydd Amwythig”
- Welsh: “Abdon”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Margaret and Abdon Village Hall.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Abdon”. Photo: Gammock, CC BY-SA 4.0.