Seisdon
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Seisdon is a rural village
in the county of Staffordshire
approximately six miles west of Wolverhampton
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gives considerable information about land ownership in the Seisdon Hundred, but it is difficult to abstract from this any real information about the village itself. It is possible to get some idea of the size of the hundred, however: it included a considerable part of South Staffordshire, taking in Bobbington, Kingswinford and Sedgley.
Almost all of its residents were originally employed in the agricultural industry.
There was a Seisdon Rural District
from 1894 to 1974.
- late Television presenter and actor
was born here in 1965.
Richard Simonds, Controversial politician of conservative persuasion lives in the area.
Also Wolverhampton wanderers manager Mick McCarthy lives in the area along with Wolverhampton wanderers player Jamie O'Hara. Benjamin Richard Taylor, a local alcoholic who went on to achieve great success with mating Dodo birds lives in Seisdon with his family and 7 pet camels, all of which were named after a day of the week, but funnily enough the camel Sunday was named Neil instead.
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...
in the county of Staffordshire
Staffordshire
Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...
approximately six miles west of Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. For Eurostat purposes Walsall and Wolverhampton is a NUTS 3 region and is one of five boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "West Midlands" NUTS 2 region...
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Etymology
The name appears to mean "hill of the Saxons", deriving from the Anglo-Saxon words Seis meaning Saxon and Dun meaning hill.History
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 BookDomesday Book
Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...
gives considerable information about land ownership in the Seisdon Hundred, but it is difficult to abstract from this any real information about the village itself. It is possible to get some idea of the size of the hundred, however: it included a considerable part of South Staffordshire, taking in Bobbington, Kingswinford and Sedgley.
Almost all of its residents were originally employed in the agricultural industry.
There was a Seisdon Rural District
Seisdon Rural District
Seisdon was a rural district in Staffordshire, England from 1894 to 1974. It lay west of Wolverhampton and was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 based on the Seisdon rural sanitary district....
from 1894 to 1974.
Famous people
Mark SpeightMark Speight
Mark Warwick Fordham Speight was an English television presenter, best known as the host of children's art programme SMart. Speight grew up in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, and left school at 16 to become a cartoonist...
- late Television presenter and actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
was born here in 1965.
Richard Simonds, Controversial politician of conservative persuasion lives in the area.
Also Wolverhampton wanderers manager Mick McCarthy lives in the area along with Wolverhampton wanderers player Jamie O'Hara. Benjamin Richard Taylor, a local alcoholic who went on to achieve great success with mating Dodo birds lives in Seisdon with his family and 7 pet camels, all of which were named after a day of the week, but funnily enough the camel Sunday was named Neil instead.