Old manhole cover in Penn, Wolverhampton
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Old manhole cover in Penn, Wolverhampton
Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 14 Nov 2010
This very well worn drain cover near the top of Manor Road, Penn bears the wording SEISDON RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL which seemed strange to me, as Seisdon is a small village in South Staffordshire four miles away (6.5 kilometres). This website http://www.archives.staffordshire.gov.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=DServeY.ini&dsqApp=Archive2&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28MgtSubGroup%3D%27District%20Councils%27%29AND%28Title%3D%27seisdon%20rural%20district%27%29%29 gives the following information: "Seisdon Rural District Council was created in 1894 with the Local Government Act 1894 ... Its areas of jurisdiction (reached as far as) Upper Penn (1894 - 1966) ... Seisdon Rural District was abolished in 1974 with the Local Government Act of 1974, when it was merged with Cannock Rural District to form South Staffordshire District Council." Upper Penn, however, had previously been transferred from Staffordshire to Wolverhampton (West Midlands) Council in 1966.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.559529
Longitude
-2.147833