Myndtown (sometimes formerly spelt ''Mindtown'') is a small village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...

in rural

Shropshire Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to ...

, around 5 miles to the north-east of

Bishop's Castle Bishop's Castle is a market town in the south west of Shropshire, England. According to the 2011 Census it had a population of 1,893. Bishop's Castle is east of the Wales-England border, about north-west of Ludlow and about south-west o ...

. The village of Myndtown itself lies immediately beneath the slope of the

Long Mynd , photo = , photo_alt = , photo_caption = View down Townbrook Valley toward Burway Hill , country_type = , country = England , subdivision1_type = County , subdivision1 = Shropshire , border ...

; it consists of only one farm, the former rectory and the small parish church of St. John the Baptist, which has 12th-century origins and is

Grade II* listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern I ...

.Church of St John, Myndtown
British Listed Buildings The parish is sparsely populated and includes some other small settlements such as

Asterton Asterton is a hamlet in Shropshire, England in the civil parish of Myndtown. The name means "eastern home farm", from Old English ''east'' "east" and "ham" "home". It is thought to date back to early Saxon times. It is situated 4 miles south west ...

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Civil parishes in Shropshire Villages in Shropshire {{shropshire-geo-stub

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