Coordinates: 52°33′10″N 2°14′23″W / 52.5529°N 2.2398°W
| Seisdon | |
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  Seisdon shown within Staffordshire |
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| OS grid reference | |
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| District | South Staffordshire |
| Shire county | Staffordshire |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Wolverhampton |
| Postcode district | WV5 |
| Dialling code | 01902 |
| Police | Staffordshire |
| Fire | Staffordshire |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| European Parliament | West Midlands |
| UK Parliament | South Staffordshire |
| List of places: UK • England • Staffordshire | |
Seisdon is a rural village in the county of Staffordshire approximately six miles west of Wolverhampton.
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Etymology
The name appears to mean "hill of the Saxons"[1], suggesting that it was originally given when there were people of both Anglo-Saxon and Celtic ethnic or cultural backgrounds living in the area. This fits well with other local toponyms, for example, Penn, which seems to be Welsh.
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 Book 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.
Famous people
Mark Speight - late Television presenter and actor was born here in 1965.
References
- ^ W.H. Duignan, Notes on Staffordshire Place Names, London: Henry Frowde, 1902
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