Description
Abdon, a parish in Salop, under the Clee Hills, 5 miles SE of Rushbury station on the G.W.R., and 9 NNE of Ludlow. Post town, Craven Arms (R.S.O.), which is the telegraph office; money order office, Munslow. Acreage, 2189; population, 172. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £236. Patron, the Earl of Pembroke. The church lias been enlarged and will seat 100. Abdon Burf is a large enclosure on Brown Clee Hill, containing Druidical remains, and a Roman camp can be traced close at hand.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
