The nearest main roads are the A41 which passes the village 4.7 miles (7.6 km) to the south west.

[4] The village is situated approximately halfway between towns of Eccleshall and Newport, Shropshire, and near the villages and hamlets of Cheswardine, Shropshire, and Woodseaves, High Offley and Knighton, Staffordshire.

The name Adbaston is derived from the Anglo-Saxon personal name Eadbald and means 'Eadbald‘s town';[5] it was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Edboldestone and in the 12th and 13th century as Adbaldestone, Alboldestun, and Albaldiston.

[8] Other Assets included 17 villager or villein, meadow of 15 acres, 40 smallholders and 1 slave.

The village contains a church, "St Michael and All Angels", and a phone box.