Seighford in 1817

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

SEIGHFORD.

Seighford, including Aston and Doxey townships, is a parish, situated about three miles north-west of Stafford, on a brook which flows from Latchford-pool and falls into the Sow. The village of Seighford consists of a few scattered houses well-thatched. The general face of the country is level, and it is in a high state of 
cultivation. 

The Church is small ; the nave is built of stone, and the chancel and a small belfry, of brick. It is dedicated to St. Chadd,and is a vicarage : the Rev. Edward Whitby is the present incumbent. 

The parish of Seighford, including the village of Bridgford, contains 138 houses, 144 families ; 420 males, 446 females : total of inhabitants, 866.