Seisdon

Seisdon is a rural village in the county of Staffordshire approximately six miles west of Wolverhampton.

Etymology

The name appears to mean "hill of the Saxons",^[1] 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 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.
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.

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