Staffordshire

\n{| border=1 cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right" width=300 style = "margin-left: 0.5em;"\n|-\n!colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#ff9999"|Staffordshire\n|-\n|colspan=2 align=center|\n|-\n!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Geography\n|-\n|width="45%"|Status:||Ceremonial & (smaller) Administrative County\n|-\n|Region:||West Midlands\n|-\n|Area:
- Total
- Admin. council
- Admin. area||Ranked 18th
2,713 km²
Ranked 18th
2,620 km²\n|-\n|Admin HQ:||Stafford\n|-\n|ISO 3166-2:||GB-STS\n|-\n|ONS code:||41\n|-\n|NUTS 3:||UKG24\n|-\n!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Demographics\n|-\n|Population:
- Total (2002 est.)
- Density
- Admin. council
- Admin. pop.||Ranked 15th
1,047,528
386 / km²
Ranked 7th
808,952\n|-\n|Ethnicity:||97.0% White
1.7% S.Asian\n|-\n!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Politics\n|-\n|colspan=2 align=center|
Staffordshire County Council
Members of Parliament\n|-\n|colspan=2|Charlotte Atkins, William Cash, Patrick Cormack, Janet Dean, Michael Fabricant, Paul Farrelly, Mark Fisher, Brian Jenkins, David Kidney, George Stevenson, Joan Walley, Tony Wright\n|-\n!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Districts\n|-\n|colspan=2|\n#Tamworth\n#Lichfield\n#Cannock Chase\n#South Staffordshire\n#Stafford\n#Newcastle-under-Lyme\n#Staffordshire Moorlands\n#East Staffordshire\n#Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary)\n|}\nStaffordshire is a landlocked county in the Midlands of England. The county town is Stafford. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders. It adjoins the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Shropshire. Major conurbations in Staffordshire include Stoke-on-Trent, Burton-upon-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Tamworth and Stafford itself. Staffordshire is divided into a number of districts. These are Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Newcastle-under-Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands and Tamworth. Stoke-on-Trent is administered as a seperate unitary authority.

Table of contents

1 History 2 Towns and villages 3 Places of interest 4 Local Groups

History

The historic county of Staffordshire included Wolverhampton, Walsall, and West Bromwich, these were removed in 1974 to the new county of West Midlands. The resulting administrative area of Staffordshire has a narrow southwards protrusion that runs west of West Midlands to the border of Worcestershire. Further, Stoke-on-Trent was removed in the 1990s to form a unitary authority, but is still considered part of Staffordshire for ceremonial purposes. Historically, Staffordshire was divided into the five hundredss of Cuttlestone, Offlow, Pirehill, Seisdon and Totmonslow.

Towns and villages

\n*Abbots Bromley, Admaston, Alrewas, Alton, Amington, Armitage\n*Barlaston, Barton-under-Needwood, Biddulph, Blythe Bridge, Brewood, Burslem, Burston, Burton-upon-Trent\n*Cannock, Cauldon, Cheadle, Cheddleton, Chorley, Consall, Croxden\n*Eccleshall, Edingale, Endon, Etruria\n*Fazeley, Featherstone\n*Gnosall, Great Haywood\n*Hanchurch, Handsacre, Hanley, Harriseahead, Hednesford, Huddlesford, Huntington\n*Ingestre\n*Kettlebrook, Kings Bromley, Kingstone, Kingswinford\n*Leek, Lichfield, Little Haywood, Longton\n*Madeley, Marchington, Marchington Woodlands, Marston, Brewood, Staffordshire, Marston\n*Newcastle-under-Lyme, No Man's Heath\n*Oakamoor, Oulton\n*Penkridge\n*Rolleston on Dove, Rudyard, Rugeley, Rushton Spencer\n*Sandon, Shallowford, Shenstone, Smallthorne, Stafford, Stoke on Trent, Stone, Stowe-by-Chartley, Stretton, Swinfen\n*Tamworth, Tutbury\n*Upper Longdon, Uttoxeter\n*Wall, Werrington, Weston, Weston-under-Lizard, Whitmore, Whittington, Willoughbridge, Wordsley

Places of interest

\n*Lichfield Cathedral [1]\n*Shugborough Hall [1]\n*Blithfield Hall\n*Dovecliff Hall\n*Ford Green Hall, Smallthorne\n*Madeley Old Hall\n*Moseley Old Hall, Featherstone\n*Sandon Hall\n*Whitmore Hall\n*Biddulph Grange\n*Eccleshall Castle\n*Mow Cop Castle\n*Stafford Castle\n*Tamworth Castle\n*Tutbury Castle\n*Croxden Abbey\n*Broad Eye Windmill, Stafford\n*Cheddleton Flint Mill, watermill\n*Watermill housing Brindley Water Museum, Leek \n*Izaak Walton Cottage Museum\n*Weston Park\n*Cannock Chase\n*Hazel Slade Reserve\n*RSPB Coombes Valley\n*National Memorial Arboretum [1]\n*Trentham Gardens\n*Rudyard Lake\n*Tittesworth Reservoir [1] [1]\n*River Trent\n*River Blythe\n*River Churnet\n*Birmingham and Fazeley Canal\n*Caldon Canal\n*Coventry Canal\n*Shropshire Union Canal\n*Trent and Mersey Canal, Harecastle Tunnel\n*Heritage railways: Chasewater Railway, Foxfield Steam Railway, Manifold Valley Railway\n*Long distance footpaths: Heart of England Way, Staffordshire Way

Local Groups

\n*West Midland Bird Club \n