SECKINGTON, a parish in the Tamworth division
of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of WARWICK,
3 miles (N. E. by E.) from Tamworth, containing 126
inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry,
rated in the king's books at £5. 16. 0., and in
the patronage of Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. The church
is dedicated to All Saints; near it are vestiges of a
large ancient encampment. In the neighbourhood is
the site of a small priory, founded by William Burdett,
in the reign of Henry II.