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when they were increased to twenty. The archdeaconry of Stoke-on-Trent was formed in 1878, and in 1896 the deaneries were brought to their present number; the archdeaconry of Stafford comprising Handsworth, Himley, Lichfield, Penkridge, Rugeley, Stafford, Tamworth, Trysull, Tutbury, Walsall, Wednesbury, West Bromwich and Wolverhampton; the archdeaconry of Stoke-on-Trent comprising Alstonfield, Cheadle, Eccleshall, Hanley, Leek, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stoke-on- Trent, Trentham and Uttoxeter. In the wars of the reign of
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on the whole far larger than any in the adjacent counties; more especially as regards northern Staffordshire. The two hundreds in the south-west are of more normal extent. It seems to be due chiefly to the nature of the county. Northern Staffordshire is to a large extent moorland, which must have been unattractive to early settlers. It is noteworthy, as showing where the centres of these hundreds lay, that the meeting-places of the two northern hundreds (
19: 562: 1403: 365:, and ironstone was procured at Sedgley and Eccleshall. In the 15th century both coal and iron were extensively worked. Thus in the 17th century the north of the county yielded coal, lead, copper, marble and millstones, while the rich meadows maintained great dairies; the woodlands of the south supplied timber, salt, black marble and alabaster; the clothing trade flourished about Tamworth, Burton, and 261:, now in Shropshire, were assessed under Staffordshire. The hundreds of Offlow and Totmonslow had their names from sepulchral monuments of Saxon commanders. The shire court for Staffordshire was held at Stafford, and the assizes at Wolverhampton, Stafford and Lichfield, until by act of parliament of 1558 the assizes and sessions were fixed at Stafford, where they are still held. 453:, has a church showing good Norman work. Brewood church, 4 miles south-west of Penkridge, is Early English. This village gives name to an ancient forest. Audley church, north-west of Newcastle-under-Lyme, is a good example of Early Decorated work. Remains of ecclesiastical foundations are generally slight, but those of the Cistercian abbey of Croxden, north-west of 469:, north-east of Stafford, which dates from the 13th century. Here is also a timbered hall, in the park of which a breed of wild cattle is maintained. Beaudesert, south of Rugeley, is a fine Elizabethan mansion in a beautiful undulating demesne. In the south-west, near Stourbridge, are Enville, a Tudor mansion with grounds laid out by the poet 549:
of Staffordshire (Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1817); Simeon Shaw, History of the Staffordshire Potteries (Hanley, 1829); Robert Garner, Natural History of the County of Stafford (London, 1844–1860); William Salt, Archaeological Society, Collections for a History of Staffordshire (1880), vol. i.; Victoria County History; Staffordshire.
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See Robert Plot, Natural History of Staffordshire (Oxford, 1686); S. Erdeswick, Survey of Staffordshire (London, 1717; 4th ed., by T. Harwood, London, 1844); Stebbing Shaw, History and Antiquities of Staffordshire, &c., vol. i., ii., pt. i. (London, 1798–1801); William Pitt, Topographical History
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under William Fitz Ansculf, was the ancestor of the Bassets of Drayton. At the time of the survey Burton was the only monastery in Staffordshire, but foundations of canons existed at Stafford, Wolverhampton, Tettenhall, Lichfield, Penkridge and Tamworth, while others at Hanbury, Stone, Strensall and
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The hundredal division of Staffordshire differs markedly from that of the counties to the south and west in showing far greater stability. All the Domesday hundreds are kept practically unchanged down to modern times. Also in the size of the hundreds. The Staffordshire hundreds, five in number, are
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In the 13th century Staffordshire formed the archdeaconry of Stafford, including the deaneries of Stafford, Newcastle, Alton and Leek, Tamworth and Tutbury, Lapley and Creigull. In 1535 the deanery of Newcastle was combined with that of Stone, the deaneries remaining otherwise unaltered until 1866,
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supplies evidence of the depopulated and impoverished condition of the county, which at this period contained but 64 mills, whereas Dorset, a smaller county, contained 272. No Englishman was allowed to retain estates of any importance after the Conquest, and the chief lay proprietors at the time of
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A large proportion of Staffordshire in Norman times was waste and uncultivated ground, but the moorlands of the north afforded excellent pasturage for sheep, and in the 14th century Wolverhampton was a staple town for wool. In the 13th century mines of coal and iron are mentioned at
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is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England. It adjoins Cheshire to the north west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the south east, West Midlands and Worcestershire to the south, and Shropshire to the west. The historic county of
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Forest, and large parts of the two hundreds in the central part of the county, those of Cuttleston and Offlow, must have been occupied by Cannock Forest. The cultivated areas of these hundreds must in early days have been considerably smaller than at present.
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Early British remains exist in various parts of the county; and a large number of barrows have been opened in which human bones, urns, fibulae, stone hammers, armlets, pins, pottery and other articles have been found. In the neighbourhood of Wetton, near
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The most noteworthy churches in the county are found in the large towns, and are described under their respective headings. Such are the beautiful cathedral of Lichfield, and the churches of Eccleshall, Leek, Penkridge
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The county probably first came into being in the decade after the year 913; that being the date at which Stafford – the strategic military fording-point for an army to cross the
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had finally expelled the Northmen from Mercia that the land of the south Mercians was formed into a shire around the fortified burgh which he had made in 914 at Stafford.
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authority. The resulting administrative area of Staffordshire has a narrow southwards protrusion that runs west of West Midlands to the border of
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of Staffordshire existed since the Domesday Survey, and the boundaries have remained practically unchanged until the twentieth century.
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The district which is now Staffordshire was invaded in the 6th century by a tribe of Angles who settled about
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has an area of 781,000 acres (1,250 sq. miles) and at the first census in 1801 had a population of 239,153.
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The county is first mentioned by name in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1016 when it was harried by Canute.
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into counties, hundreds and tithings. From the beginning, Staffordshire was divided into the hundreds of
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ravaged all the lands of Earl Robert Ferrers in this county and destroyed Tutbury Castle. During the
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of the 17th century Staffordshire supported the parliamentary cause and was placed under
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was represented by two members in the parliament of 1290, and in 1295 the borough of
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stone cross that dates from around the year 805. The cross still stands in
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The English Hundred Names, by Olof Anderson, Lund (Sweden), 1934. Page 144
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withstood a siege in 1643, in which year the Royalists were victorious at
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The origin of the hundred dates from the division of his kingdom by King
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the county returned four members in four divisions, and the boroughs of
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Trentham had been either destroyed or absorbed before the Conquest.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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was punished by ruthless harrying and confiscation, and the
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the county returned six members in three divisions and
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was removed from the admin area in the 1990s to form a
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Political history of the United Kingdom (1979–present)
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Social history of the United Kingdom (1979–present)
114:churchyard. Thus the Knot is either i) an ancient 518:History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire 1418: 233:, and in 1459 the Lancastrians were defeated at 662: 597: 396:was represented by two members in 1304, and 240: 178:The resistance which Staffordshire opposed 669: 655: 416:were represented by two members each, and 298:of Staffordshire (with North to the right) 908:History of monarchy in the United Kingdom 619:Victoria County History for Staffordshire 572: 530:A Topographical History of Staffordshire 520:; by William White, pub. Sheffield, 1834 404:returned two members in 1562. 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Staffordshire
Wolverhampton
Walsall
West Bromwich
West Midlands
Worcestershire
Stoke-on-Trent
unitary authority
historic county
Dovedale
Needwood Forest
Watling Street
Brownhills
Staffordshire Knot
Anglian
Stoke
Mercian
Irish
Christianity
Lindisfarne
Tamworth
Cannock Chase
Tettenhall
Wednesfield
Edward the Elder
Trent
Mercia
Queen Æthelflæd
William the Conqueror

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