Trysull in 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]

"TRYSULL, a parish in the S. division of Seisdon hundred, county Stafford, 5 miles S.W. of Wolverhampton, its post town, and 7½ N.W. of Dudley. The village is situated near the Birmingham canal, on the river Smestow. The parish includes the hamlet of Seisdon, which gives name to the hundred. The living is a vicarage annexed to that of Wombourne, in the diocese of Lichfield. The church is dedicated to All Saints. There is a National school for both sexes."

"ABBOT'S CASTLE, (or Apewood Castle), in the parish of Trysull, near Wolverhampton, in the county of Stafford. Here are the remains of a British fortification, on a lofty round eminence, to the N. of the Shrewsbury and London road.

"SEISDON, a township and liberty in the parish of Trysull, S. division of Seisdon hundred, county Stafford, 5½ miles S.W. of Wolverhampton. It is situated on the river Smestow, near Apeswood Castle camp, and gives name to the hundred and Poor law Union. Near Seisdon Common is a large triangular stone, called the War Stone, supposed to mark the site of some ancient battle."

 

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]