Description
Seaton, a village and a parish in Rutland. The village stands near the L. & N.W.R., 2 1/2 miles ESE of Uppingham; was known at Domesday as Segentone, and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Kettering; money order office, Harringworth; telegraph office, Uppingham. The parish contains also the hamlet of Thorpe-by-Water, and comprises 2135 acres; population of the civil parish, with Thorpe, 337; of the ecclesiastical, 351. The manor belonged at Domesday to Robert de Todeni, passed to the Beaufoes and others, and belongs now to the Monckton family. The living is a rectory, united with Thorpe-by-Water, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint net value, £452 with residence. The church, which was thoroughly restored in 1875, is an ancient Early English building of stone.
We have transcribed the Rutland pages from Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1929, and you can view the entry for Seaton which contains further infomation and lists of residents etc.
