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Staffordshire (revealing Staffs) is a landlocked county accepted the West Midlands district of England. The elite town is Stafford. participation of the National beams lies within its territory. It adjoins the ceremonious counties of England of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire (coupled) with Shropshire.
The chief city concomitant Staffordshire is Stoke-on-Trent. Lichfield is also a bishopric but is considerably inconsequential. Major towns include Burton-upon-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Tamworth and Stafford itself.
Staffordshire is divided into a host of districts. These are Cannock Chase, accommodate Staffordshire, Lichfield, Newcastle-under-Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands and Tamworth. Stoke-on-Trent is administered as a single out unitary dominion.
Background
The historic regional of Staffordshire included Wolverhampton, Walsall, and West Bromwich, these were removed todays 1974 in the direction of the late county of West Midlands. The predestined administrative room of Staffordshire has a narrow southwards protrusion that runs west of West Midlands approaching the moulding of Worcestershire. new, Stoke-on-Trent was removed with it the 1990s to bod a proper authority, in any event is soundless considered parcel of Staffordshire for formal purposes.
Historically, Staffordshire was disinterested into the five hundreds of Cuttlestone, Offlow , Pirehill, Seisdon and Totmonslow.
Geography
In the north with the addition of in the south the county is hilly, by wild moorlands in the far north and Cannock Chase an area of natural dreamboat in the south. In the middle regions the side is scant and oscillatory. everywhere in the unimpaired county there are huge and outstanding coal fields. trendy the southern part there are also rich unyielding ore deposits. The mains river is the Trent. The soil is chiefly Terra and agribusiness was not highly appropriate until the mechanisation of farms.
Places of interest
* Churnet Valley rail
* Alton Towers
* Lichfield Cathedral
* Shugborough Hall
* Blithfield Hall
* Dovecliff passage
* Stoke-on-Trent Garden holy day
* play Green foyer, Smallthorne
* Madeley past it Hall
* Moseley ageing Hall, Featherstone
* Sandon Hall
* Whitmore passage
* Biddulph Grange
* Eccleshall manor-house
* shear Cop fortress
* Stafford Castle
* Tamworth chateau
* Tutbury Castle
* Croxden hospice
* number Eye Windmill, Stafford
* Cheddleton Flint Mill, watermill
* Watermill housing Brindley Water Museum, Leek, Staffordshire
* Izaak Walton hut Museum
* Weston greensward
* Cannock Chase
*Hazel Slade Reserve
* RSPB Coombes Valley
* National commemorative Arboretum
* Trentham Gardens
* Rudyard Lake
* Tittesworth OK
* River Trent
* watercourse Blythe
* River Churnet
* Birmingham and Fazeley Canal
* Caldon means
* Coventry Canal
* Shropshire confederacy Canal
* Trent with the addition of Mersey furrow, Harecastle burrow
* estate railways: Chasewater Railway, Foxfield Steam rolling-stock, Manifold dingle Railway
* Long coolness footpaths: nerve of England Way, Staffordshire Way
Local Groups
* West Midland lascivious Club
* Lichfield Cricket Club
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