Abberton, Worcestershire

Abberton is a small village in Worcestershire, England.

[2] The principal house in the village is Abberton Hall.

The names 'Abberton' is derived from 'Estate called after Eadbriht' (Ēadbriht + ing + tūn).

[3] The village is mentioned in the Cartularium Saxonicum in 972 as Eadbrihyincgtun,[4] and is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086-7 as Edbretintune and as Edbritone, when it was a berewick, an outlying estate, held by the Church of St Mary of Pershore.

[6] In the 1850s, the village had 80 inhabitants, one fourth of this was the local clerk's 19 children.

Entrance to Abberton Hall
Entrance to Abberton Hall