Abdon and Heath is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the

Shropshire Shropshire (; abbreviated SalopAlso used officially as the name of the county from 1974–1980. The demonym for inhabitants of the county "Salopian" derives from this name.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West M ...

unitary authority district of the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. The parish includes the settlements of Abdon, Balaams Heath, Baucott, Brookhampton,

Heath A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a coole ...

, Holdgate and Tugford. It lies north east of

Craven Arms Craven Arms is a market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is sited on the A49 road and the Welsh Marches Line, Welsh Marches railway line, which link it north and south to the larger towns of Shrewsbur ...

and south west of

Bridgnorth Bridgnorth is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England. The River Severn splits it into High Town and Low Town, the upper town on the right bank and the lower on the left bank of the River Severn. The population at the United Kingd ...

, rising from the

River Corve The River Corve is a minor river in Shropshire Shropshire (; abbreviated SalopAlso used officially as the name of the county from 1974–1980. The demonym for inhabitants of the county "Salopian" derives from this name.) is a Ceremonial c ...

to the north west to include Abdon Burf, the summit of

Brown Clee Hill Brown Clee Hill is the highest hill in the rural England, English county of Shropshire, at above sea level. It is one of the Clee Hills, and is in the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Geography Brown Clee Hill lies five ...

at in the south east. Stage 7 of the

Shropshire Way The Shropshire Way Main Route is a waymarked long distance footpath running through the English county of Shropshire. It runs around the interior of the county in two loops centred on Shrewsbury, with an additional spur to Whitchurch. The M ...

long-distance path crosses the parish. In 2021 the parish had a population of 202. It was created on 1 April 2017 by combining the previously separate civil parishes of Abdon and Heath. It has a parish council, the lowest tier of local government in England; this has five councillors. The parish includes 31

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s, ranging from the 12th-century Heath Chapel to a 1935 K6 phone box, and three scheduled ancient monuments including a

deserted medieval village In the United Kingdom, a deserted medieval village (DMV) is a former settlement which was abandoned during the Middle Ages, typically leaving no trace apart from earthworks or cropmarks. If there are fewer than three inhabited houses the conve ...

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* Civil parishes in Shropshire 2017 establishments in England {{Shropshire-geo-stub

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