HUNDRED. 209 WHEELWRIGHTS. 3 Bentley John at My. Birch's. Carriers, &c., All en John 8 Griffiths Rd. Letters despch. (See Whampton, 3 .Beech John POST·Oi"l"ICE 7;f evening pages 136-7.) , a small village, 5 miles S.W. of , comprises within its parish 3310 acres of land and 541 inhabitants, of whom 213 are in Seisdon hamlet, Lord vVrottesley is lord of the manor, but a great part of the soil belongs to Jno. Pudsey, Henry Jesson, Jno. Perry, and D. and vV. Banton, Esqrs., who have neat houses in the parish. The CHURCH is a small ancient edifice, dedi­ cated to All Saints, and having the figure of a bishop carved on its north wall. It was enlarged, and beautifully restored, in 1844. The living is a vicarage, annexed to that of Wombonrn. Thefeast is on the nearest Sunday to November 5th. The charities belonging to the parish are as follows : Lands at Bulwardine, in Cl a verley parish, comprising about eleven acres, let for £15 a year, were pur­ chased in 1620, with several benefactions amounting to £63. 6s. 8d. The sum of £30, obtained by the sale of timber on this land, was laid out in 1753, in the purchase of Shinton's JYieadow and Gardeny at Seisdon. At the same place is a cottage with 3A. 3R. of land, pur­ chased with the bequest of Ma·ry Andrews, in 1716, except a small allotment received at the enclosure in 1800. The poor of Trysull have also 2~ acres of land at Trimpley, near , pur~ chased in 1712 with several donations. They have likewise three annuities, amounting to £3. 12s., left by John Rudge, in 1725 } Henry Wheeler, in 1695; and John Ketley, in 1728; and £1. 10s. arising yearly from £100 three-per-cent. stock, purchased with the benefactions of Thomas and Samuel Peach, in 1800, for the equol benefit of the school and poor. The Free School was endowed bY Thomas Rudge with £200, which was laid out in the purcbase~of. tt barn and 18 acres of land, at W oodall, near Trimpley. SEISDON, a pleasant hamlet, with 213 inhabitants, gives name to Seisdon Hundred and Union-( see page 61)-and lies near the borders of Shrop­ shire, one mile W. of Trysull, where there is a narrow bridge of several arches over the river Smestow. Upon a lofty height, which forms the boundary line between the two counties, is the ancient entrenc/mzent called .Apewood Oastle. The whole extent of the ridge, for a mile in length, has hollows cut in the ground, over which the ancient possessors are supposed to have set their tents, so as to form one continued line of defence. The lowes in the adjoining parish of Wombourn, are perhaps the cemeteries of some Romans of rank, who were slain in an attempt to dislodge the Britons from this strong position, which is so admirably calculated by natureJ as well as art for a vigorous resistance. Near Seisdon Common, is a large triangular stone, called the War Stone, and at a short distance is a small square camp with a single ditch. Daniel Banton, Esq., owns and occupies several farms here, and was the first agriculturist in the county who used guano, which in these "free trade times" may be called the farmers' sheet anchor. Upon one of his farms, Mr. Banton has a mill employed in thrashing his grain, and in grinding for his live stock. His thrashing · machine performs at one time the operations of thrashing, winnowing, shaking the straw, piling the barley, bagging up the grain, and weighing ready for market•

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