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.
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