[5] On the county boundary there is a high position which formed an ancient entrenchment named Abbot's Wood (Apewood) Castle.
[4] Seisdon Hall is a grade II Listed Building [6] dating from the 17th century and greatly extended around 1840-1850 [7] by the Aston-Pudset family.
[3] Place-name evidence suggests a fairly early Anglo-Saxon origin for the name.
Certainly the village of Seisdon was of sufficient importance prior to the Norman Conquest of 1066 to have its owners and value recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086.
The Hundred contained Wolverhampton, the largest town of the county, and many populous villages, which were constituted into 18 parishes, part of two others and two extra parochial areas.