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The hamlet is remarkable for giving the name to the Hundred, for which no adequate authority can now be adduced. However, a large number of Hundred names refer to hills or mounds. It seems likely that such sites were chosen as being' remote, and where interference was most easily
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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 two extra parochial areas. Wolverhampton parish contained several townships some of which were in Offlow Hundred. The parishes in 1834 were
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The Hundred presented a great diversity of soil and scenery. It was rich in coal, ironstone, lime, and freestone, and renowned for its extensive mines and iron works, and for the manufacture of a great variety of articles in iron, steel, and other metals.
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Seisdon is a hamlet within the parish of Trysull and Seisdon (formerly named Trysull, only), 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
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Seisdon Hall is a grade II Listed Building dating from the 17th century and greatly extended around 1840-1850 by the Aston-Pudset family. Previously known as Green Farm.
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avoided. Placename evidence suggests a fairly early Anglo-Saxon origin for the name. Certainly the village of Seisdon was of sufficient importance prior to the
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Listed Buildings web site britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101277100-bridge-over-smestow-brook-trysull-and-seisdon#.W9sy3pP7ShM retrieved Nov 2018
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History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire by William White, pub. Sheffield, 1834 (section on Trysull Parish)
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A topographical history of Staffordshire, by William Pitt, pub J. Smith (Newcastle-under-Lyme), 1817; p.187
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Historic England web site historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1232129 retrieved Nov 2018
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History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire by William White, pub. Sheffield, 1834. Page 163
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Seisdon Hundred was divided into North and South Divisions. each with their own High Constable.
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does not distinguish this hamlet from the rest of the parish, which had a population of 1,150.
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History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire by William White, pub. Sheffield, 1834
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who held 600 acres in Seisdon and also land in Trysull and other parts of the parish.
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The name appears to mean "hill of the Saxons", deriving from the Anglo-Saxon words
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Hundred. The old Forest of Brewood formed the boundary of Seisdon and Cuttleston.
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W.H. Duignan, Notes on Staffordshire Place Names, London: Henry Frowde, 1902
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The English Hundred Names, by Olof Anderson, Lund (Sweden), 1934. Page 145
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Parish council web site www.trysullandseisdon.co.uk retrieved Nov 2018
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meaning hill. The first element may alternatively be a personal name.
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Almost all of its residents were originally employed in the
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Each hundred was formed to support a military unit.
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Seisdon is located in Staffordshire
Staffordshire
OS grid reference
SO838950
District
South Staffordshire
Shire county
Staffordshire
Region
West Midlands
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Wolverhampton
Postcode district
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