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Trysull in 1817

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Description from A Topographical History of Staffordshire by William Pitt (1817)

TRYSULL.

Trysull is a small village on the banks of the Smestall. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is an ancient edifice with a small stone tower, on which is sculptured the figure of a bishop. The manor belongs to the Wrottesley family. The waste land in this parish, formerly very considerable, has been inclosed: the upland is a light sandy soil.

Seisdon is a small village or hamlet on the Smestall water, and remarkable for giving name to this hundred, for which no adequate authority can now be adduced. Here is a narrow bridge of several arches over the Smestall.

In this parish is the ancient fortification called Apewood Castle: it stands on a lofty round promontory, the whole extent of the ridge for a mile together having hollows cut in the ground, and apparently forming one continued line of defence, the two hills at each end being the principal bastions. Plot conjectures it to have been a British work.

Near Seisdon-common is a large triangular stone called the War stone; and at a short distance, a small square camp with a single trench.