Staffordshire

File:Staffordshire Flag.svg

Flag of Staffordshire

File:Arms of Staffordshire County Council.svg

Coat of arms of Staffordshire

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Stafford. Part of the National Forest is there. It is next to the counties of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire and Shropshire.

The largest city in ceremonial Staffordshire is Stoke-on-Trent.

Places of interest

Key
National Trust	Owned by the National Trust
English Heritage	Owned by English Heritage
Forestry Commission	Owned by the Forestry Commission
Country Park	A Country Park
Accessible open space	An Accessible open space
Museum (free)	Museum (free)
Museum	Museum (charges entry fee)
Heritage railway	Heritage railway
Historic house	Historic House

Alton Towers Ancient High House File:HH icon.svg File:Museum icon.svg Belvide Reservoir Biddulph Grange Blithfield Hall Blithfield Reservoir Brindley Water Mill File:Museum icon (red).svg Broad Eye Windmill Cannock Chase File:UKAL icon.svg Chasewater Railway File:HR icon.svg Cheddleton Flint Mill File:Museum icon.svg Churnet Valley Railway File:HR icon.svg Croxden Abbey File:EH icon.svg Dovecliff Hall Downs Banks Drayton Manor Theme Park Eccleshall Castle Festival Park File:UKAL icon.svg Ford Green Hall File:HH icon.svg Foxfield Steam Railway File:HR icon.svg Heart of England Way Ilam Park

Izaak Walton Cottage Museum File:Museum icon.svg Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway File:HR icon.svg Lichfield Cathedral Madeley Old Hall File:HH icon.svg Moseley Old Hall File:NTE icon.svg Moseley Railway Trust File:HR icon.svg File:Museum icon.svg Mow Cop Castle National Memorial Arboretum RSPB Coombes Valley Rudyard Lake Steam Railway File:HR icon.svg Sandon Hall Shugborough Hall File:NTE icon.svg Stafford Castle Staffordshire Way Tamworth Castle Trentham Gardens Tutbury Castle Victoria Park File:UKAL icon.svg Weston Park File:UKAL icon.svg Whitmore Hall File:HH icon.svg

Staffordshire Media

• Staffordshire UK locator map 2010

• Staffordshire numbered districts.svg

  Staffordshire numbered districts

• Staffordia Atlas.jpg

  Hand-drawn map of Stafford by Christopher Saxton from 1577

• Staffordshire Flag.svg

  The flag of the historic county of Staffordshire

• LichCathedral4.jpg

  A view of Lichfield Cathedral from the north West.

• The Staffordshire Hoard, discovered in a field near Lichfield in July 2009, is perhaps the most important collection of Anglo-Saxon objects found in England.

• Mowcopcastle.jpg

  Mow Cop Castle on the Cheshire border

• JCB Diesel Max Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon.jpg

  JCB Dieselmax, holder of the land speed record for diesel-engined vehicles

• Marmite-Guinness edition.JPG

  Marmite is made from the yeast left over from the brewing industry

• The town centre of Stafford, England.

Other websites

• Staffordshire County Council
• Staffordshire Past Track - Historical archive about the county
• The story of a Staffordshire Home Guard Battalion, 1940-1944
• Staffordshire Photographs
• Staffordshire Tourism website Archived 2014-12-18 at the Wayback Machine