ADBASTON, a township and a parish in the district of Newport-Salop and county of Stafford. The township lies near the Grand Junction canal, 4½ miles W by S of Eccleshall, and 6 SW of Standon-Bridge r. station; and has a post office under Newport-Salop. Real property, £2,329. Pop., 210. Houses, 40. The parish contains also the townships of Flashbrook, Bishops-Offlow, and Tunstall. Acres, 4,560. Real property, £6,895. Pop. 593. Houses, 116. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £100.* Patron, the Dean of Lichfield. The church is good. Charities, £8. Adbaston gave the title of Viscount to Earl Whitworth.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))