Trysull and Seisdon is a conjoined
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...
in the
South Staffordshire
South Staffordshire is a local government district in Staffordshire, England. The district lies to the north and west of the West Midlands county, bordering Shropshire to the west and Worcestershire to the south. It contains notable settlements ...
non-metropolitan district
Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially "shire districts", are a type of local government district in England. As created, they are sub-divisions of non-metropolitan counties (colloquially ''shire counties'') in a two-tier arrangement. Non-m ...
, in the county of
Staffordshire
Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...
, England. The population of the civil parish taken at the
2011 census was 1,150. It is in the lowest tier of local government below
districts
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...
and
counties
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
.
[F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 426.] It is both an
administrative parish, and an ecclesiastical
parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...
formed from the two historic villages of
Trysull
Trysull is a rural village in the county of Staffordshire, England approximately five miles south-west of Wolverhampton. With the adjacent village of Seisdon, it forms the civil parish of Trysull and Seisdon, within the South Staffordshire non- ...
and
Seisdon
Seisdon is a rural village in the parish of Trysull and Seisdon, Staffordshire approximately six miles west of Wolverhampton and the name of one of the five Hundred (county division), hundreds of Staffordshire. The population recorded at the Unit ...
.
Background
Although a historic entity, the civil parish, in its modern sense, was established afresh in 1894, by the
Local Government Act 1894
The Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales outside the County of London. The Act followed the reforms carried out at county level un ...
. It was part of
Seisdon Rural District
Seisdon was a rural district in Staffordshire, England from 1894 to 1974. It lays west of Wolverhampton and was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 based on the Seisdon rural sanitary district.
Villages in the district included Kinver, W ...
until 1974.
Governance
There is a parish meeting, consisting of all the electors of the parish. Generally a meeting is held once a year. There is an elected
parish council which exercises various local responsibilities given by statute.
Population
The
2011 census recorded a
usually resident population for the parish of Trysull & Seisdon of 1,150 persons in 455 Households.
See also
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Listed buildings in Trysull and Seisdon
Trysull & Seisdon, Trysull and Seisdon is a civil parish in the district of South Staffordshire, Staffordshire, England. It contains 22 Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England ...
References
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South Staffordshire District
Civil parishes in Staffordshire