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Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs .) is a landlocked ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the south-east, the West Midlands county and Worcestershire to the south, and Shropshire to the west. The largest settlement is the city of Stoke-on-Trent , and the county town is Stafford .
The county has an area of 1,713 square kilometres (661 sq mi) and a population of 1,131,052. After Stoke-on-Trent (258,366), the largest settlements are Tamworth (78,646), Newcastle-under-Lyme (75,082) and Burton upon Trent (72,299); the city of Lichfield has a population of 33,816. For local government purposes Staffordshire comprises a non-metropolitan county , with nine districts, and the unitary authority area of Stoke-on-Trent. The county historically included the north-west of the West Midlands county, including Walsall , West Bromwich , and Wolverhampton .
Staffordshire is hilly to the north and south. The southern end of the Pennines is in the north, containing part of the Peak District National Park , while the Cannock Chase AONB and part of the National Forest are in the south. The River Trent and its tributaries drain most of the county. From its source, near Biddulph , the river flows through Staffordshire in a southwesterly direction, meeting the Sow just east of Stafford; it then meets the River Tame and turns north-east, exiting into Derbyshire immediately downstream of Burton upon Trent. (Full article... )
Lichfield () is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire , England . Lichfield is situated 18 miles (29 km) south-east of Stafford , 9 miles (14 km) north-east of Walsall , 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Tamworth and 13 miles (21 km) south-west of Burton Upon Trent . At the time of the 2021 Census, the population was 34,738 and the population of the wider Lichfield District was 106,400.
Notable for its three-spired medieval
cathedral , Lichfield was the birthplace of
Samuel Johnson , the writer of the first authoritative
Dictionary of the English Language . The city's
recorded history began when
Chad of Mercia arrived to establish his
Bishopric in 669 AD and the settlement grew as the ecclesiastical centre of
Mercia . In 2009, the
Staffordshire Hoard , the largest hoard of
Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork, was found 4 mi (6.4 km) south-west of Lichfield. (
Full article... )
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The following are images from various Staffordshire-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 Arnold Bennett Statue Hanley, located on the approach to Potteries Museum and Art Gallery (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 2 Porcelain teapot by Henry and Richard Daniel, 1830 (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 3 Perseus with the Head of Medusa sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini at Trentham Gardens (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 4 Canal on New Leek Road. (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 5 Arnold Bennett, raised in Hanley. (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 6 Shire Hall and Market Square (from
Stafford )
Image 7 Hugh Bourne, founder of Primitive Methodism (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 8 Moors located within the district (from
Staffordshire Moorlands )
Image 9 Staffordshire University Stoke campus (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 10 Colclough China Longton, a factory typical of the mid 20th century (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 11 Royal Stoke University Hospital (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 13 Potteries Oatcake. (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 14 St Chad's Church, Stafford (from
Stafford )
Image 15 "CAPO" Modernist Sculpture depicting the head of Josiah Wedgwood by Vincent Woropay © Eirian Evans via Geograph. (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 16 Leek , the district's largest town and administrative headquarters. (from
Staffordshire Moorlands )
Image 17 Former City Central Library & Archives, Bethesda Street, Hanley (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 18 Tunstall Tower Square. (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 19 Colorado Bouillons Regina and teapots, vitrified tableware by Dudson Brothers Ltd. (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 20 Stafford Knot (from
Stafford )
Image 21 View from Stafford Castle (from
Stafford )
Image 22 Victoria Park, Stafford (from
Stafford )
Image 23 Flag of Staffordshire (from
History of Staffordshire )
Image 24 Lemmy, born in Burslem (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 25 Terraced housing is a common feature in the city. (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 26 Chatterley Whitfield Colliery (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 27 Restored bottle kilns, Stoke-on-Trent (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 28 County Buildings, Martin Street, Stafford (from
Stafford )
Image 30 Stafford on the 14th-century
Gough Map , at bottom centre.
Stone is bottom left,
Lichfield centre left. North is to the left (from
Stafford )
Image 32 Map of Stafford (from
Stafford )
Image 33 Vale Park , home of Port Vale. Completed in 1950, at the time of its construction it was nicknamed 'The Wembley of the North'. (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 34 Stoke City's
Bet365 Stadium , opened in 1997, has a 30,089 capacity. (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 35 The
Borough Hall (from
Stafford )
Image 36 Town Twinning Sign on Eccleshall Road (from
Stafford )
Image 37 The author
Izaak Walton was born in Stafford. Portrait by
Jacob Huysmans (from
Stafford )
Image 39 Looking southeast over the Roaches and Hen Cloud (from
Staffordshire Moorlands )
Image 40 The
Golden sculpture, March 2017. (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 41 Statue of Josiah Wedgwood by Edward Davis unveiled at its present location in 1863 (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 42 Stafford Crown Court (from
Stafford )
Image 44 A diagram of local rail services in Stoke-on-Trent. (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 45 Hundreds of Staffordshire (with North to the right) (from
History of Staffordshire )
Image 46 Man of Fire, a 1964 sculpture installed on Lewis's Store (later Debenhams), Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 47 A50 close to Longton. (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 48 Ancient High House (from
Stafford )
Image 49 Stafford Hospital (from
Stafford )
Image 50 Cheadle , the district's third largest town. (from
Staffordshire Moorlands )
Image 51 Stafford CC versus the MCC in their Centenary Year 1964 (from
Stafford )
Image 52 A Man Can't Fly sculpture, Stoke-on-Trent, England. (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 53 Hanley , Stoke-on-Trent City Centre. (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
Image 55 Biddulph Grange in
Biddulph , the district's second largest town. (from
Staffordshire Moorlands )
Image 56 Miss Elizabeth is a pleasure boat that travels the length of Trentham Lake, within
Trentham Gardens (from
Stoke-on-Trent )
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