Description
Seighford, a village and a parish in Staffordshire. The village stands 1 1/4 mile S of Great Bridgeford station on the L. & N.W.R. and 3 miles W by N of Stafford. It has a post office under Stafford; money order and telegraph office, Stafford. The parish comprises 4741 acres; population, 793. It includes Great and Little Bridgeford, Derrington. Colon Clanford, Doxey, and Aston. There is a parish council consisting of eight members and a chairman. Seighford Hall is an ancient mansion situated in a well-wooded park. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £117 with residence. The church is chiefly Norman, and contains a large marble altar-tomb of 1593 for Sir William Bowyer and his wife.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
