Abdon and Heath
Abdon and Heath is a civil parish in the Shropshire unitary authority district of the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England.
Abdon and Heath is a civil parish in the Shropshire unitary authority district of the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. The parish includes the settlements of Abdon, Balaams Heath, Baucott, Brookhampton, Heath, Holdgate and Tugford. It lies north east of Craven Arms and south west of Bridgnorth, rising from the River Corve to the north west to include Abdon Burf, the summit of Brown Clee Hill at 540 m (1,770 ft) in the south east. Stage 7 of the Shropshire Way long-distance path crosses the parish. In 2021 the parish had a population of 202.
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Worth seeing in and around Abdon and Heath
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity Church is in the village of Holdgate, Shropshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ludlow, the archdeaconry of Ludlow, and the diocese of Hereford.
1.9 km · church in Holdgate, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Holdgate Castle
Holdgate Castle is situated in the village of Holdgate between Craven Arms and Bridgnorth, Shropshire. This castle was mentioned in the Domesday Book.
1.8 km · motte-and-bailey castle in Abdon and Heath, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03British Ironworks Centre & Shropshire Sculpture Park
The British Ironworks Centre & Shropshire Sculpture Park is a forge, silversmiths and sculpture park with a large showroom near Oswestry in Shropshire, England. The centre is famous for its safari park of sculptures, mostly in metal, and its gorilla made entirely of spoons.
3.4 km · forge, park, and showroom in Shropshire, England · Wikipedia - 04Heath Chapel
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.
2.5 km · church in Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Abdon and Heath
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 60 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 95 km · East Midlands (EMA), 96 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Abdon and Heath51 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £8–10
- Liverpool → Abdon and Heath105 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £13–17
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Abdon and Heath114 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £13–18
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Abdon and Heath. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThey continue to Leominster, Hereford, Abergavenny, Newport, Cardiff, Port Talbot, Neath, Swansea, Llanelli, Carmarthen, Haverfordwest, Milford Haven and Fishguard, for ferries to Rosslare.
- Get inTrains from Holyhead (for Dublin ferries) run every two hours and take 3 hr 10 min via Llanfairpwll (etcetera etcetera) and stations along the north Wales coast, Chester, Wrexham, Chirk and Shrewsbury then as above through Ludlow to Cardiff.
From Wikivoyage: Ludlow (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Abdon and Heath is 50 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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