Seisdon
| Seisdon | |
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 The Smestow Brook at Seisdon |
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 Seisdon
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| Seisdon shown within Staffordshire | |
| OS grid reference | SO838950 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Wolverhampton |
| Postcode district | WV5 |
| Dialling code | 01902 |
| Police | Staffordshire |
| Fire | Staffordshire |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| EU Parliament | West Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Seisdon is a rural village in the county of Staffordshire approximately six miles west of Wolverhampton and the name of one of the five hundreds of Staffordshire. For population details as taken at the 2011 census see Trysull & Seisdon.
Placename evidence suggests a fairly early Anglo-Saxon origin. Certainly the village of Seisdon was of sufficient importance by the Norman Conquest to be the eponym of a hundred. The Domesday Book gives considerable information about land ownership in the Seisdon Hundred, but there is little to abstract about the village itself.
Seisdon was a hamlet within the parish of Trysull, lying one mile north-west of the village of Trysull, near the border with Shropshire.There is a narrow bridge of several arches over the river Smestow. On the county boundary there is a high position which formed an ancient entrenchment named Abbot's Wood (Apewood) Castle.
Almost all of its residents were originally employed in the agricultural industry.
Each hundred was formed to support a military unit. Seisdon Hundred contains the smallest area of the five hundreds of Staffordshire, but it has a relatively high population density and agricultural productivity. It formed the south-western portion of the county, bounded on the west by Shropshire, on the south by Worcestershire, on the east by Offlow Hundred, and on the north by Cuttlestone Hundred. The old Forest of Brewood formed the boundary of Seisdon and Cuttleston.
Seison Hundred was divided into North and South Divisions. each with their own chief Constable.
The Hundred contained Wolverhampton, the largest town of the county, and many populous villages, which were constituted into 18 parishes, part of two others and one extra parochial area. Wolverhampton parish contained several townships some of which were in Cuttlestone and Offlow Hundreds. The parishes in 1834 were as follows:
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