Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SEISDON

SEISDON, a liberty and a hundred in Stafford. The liberty lies 5½ miles S W of Wolverhampton; and is in Trysull parish. Pop., 213. The hundred contains 16 parishes, and 6 parts; and is cut into two sections N and S. Acres, 39, 729 and 39, 252. Pop. in 1851, 100, 468and 11, 615; in 1861, 135, 483. Houses, 26,026.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a liberty"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Staffordshire AncC
Place: Seisdon

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