Staffordshire








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Staffordshire
County







Staffordshire Flag.svg
Flag

Motto: "The knot unites"

Staffordshire within England

Coordinates: 52°50′N 2°00′W / 52.833°N 2.000°W / 52.833; -2.000Coordinates: 52°50′N 2°00′W / 52.833°N 2.000°W / 52.833; -2.000
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Constituent country England
Region West Midlands
Established Ancient
Ceremonial county
Lord Lieutenant Ian Dudson
High Sheriff Mrs Philippa Jane Gee[1] (2018-19)
Area 2,713 km2 (1,047 sq mi)
 • Ranked 18th of 48
Population (mid-2017 est.) 1,126,200
 • Ranked 17th of 48
Density 415/km2 (1,070/sq mi)
Ethnicity 97.0% White
1.7% S.Asian
1.3% Other

Non-metropolitan county
County council
Coat of arms of Staffordshire County Council
Staffordshire County Council
Executive Conservative
Admin HQ Stafford
Area 2,620 km2 (1,010 sq mi)
 • Ranked 18th of 27
Population 870,800
 • Ranked 8th of 27
Density 332/km2 (860/sq mi)
ISO 3166-2 GB-STS
ONS code 41
GSS code E10000028
NUTS UKG24
Website www.staffordshire.gov.uk


Staffordshire Ceremonial Numbered.png
Districts of Staffordshire
Unitary County council area
Districts

  1. Tamworth

  2. Lichfield

  3. Cannock Chase

  4. South Staffordshire

  5. Stafford

  6. Newcastle-under-Lyme

  7. Staffordshire Moorlands

  8. East Staffordshire

  9. City of Stoke-on-Trent



Members of Parliament List of MPs
Police Staffordshire Police
Time zone
Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
 • Summer (DST)
British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Staffordshire (/ˈstæfərdʃɪər, -ʃər/;[2] postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England. It borders with Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, West Midlands and Worcestershire to the south, and Shropshire to the west.


The largest city in Staffordshire is Stoke-on-Trent, which is administered separately from the rest of the county as an independent unitary authority. Lichfield also has city status, although this is a considerably smaller cathedral city. Major towns include Stafford (the county town), Burton upon Trent, Cannock, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Leek, and Tamworth. Smaller towns include Stone, Cheadle, Uttoxeter, Rugeley, Eccleshall, Penkridge and large villages Wombourne, Kinver, Tutbury and Stretton. Cannock Chase AONB is within the county as well as parts of the National Forest and the Peak District national park.


Wolverhampton, Walsall, West Bromwich and Smethwick are within the historic county boundaries of Staffordshire, but since 1974 have been part of West Midlands. Although Staffordshire still appears under the West Midlands Region along with Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire.


Apart from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire is divided into the districts of Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Newcastle-under-Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, and Tamworth.




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Economy


  • 3 Education


  • 4 Sport


  • 5 Geography


    • 5.1 Green belt




  • 6 Demographics


  • 7 Government


    • 7.1 Latest Council election results


    • 7.2 Boundary changes




  • 8 Towns and villages


    • 8.1 Historic towns/cities




  • 9 Staffies


  • 10 Religion


    • 10.1 Church of England


    • 10.2 Roman Catholic Church


    • 10.3 Methodism


    • 10.4 Judaism


    • 10.5 Islam




  • 11 Transport


    • 11.1 Canals


    • 11.2 Railways


    • 11.3 Roads


    • 11.4 Air




  • 12 Media


    • 12.1 Newspapers


    • 12.2 Radio


    • 12.3 Television




  • 13 Places of interest


  • 14 Gallery


  • 15 See also


  • 16 References


  • 17 External links





History






John Speed's c. 1611 map of Staffordshire, showing the county's historic boundaries and its hundreds


Historically, Staffordshire was divided into five hundreds: Cuttlestone, Offlow, Pirehill, Seisdon, and Totmonslow.





Lichfield Cathedral


The historic boundaries of Staffordshire cover much of what is now the metropolitan county of West Midlands. An administrative county of Staffordshire was set up in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888 covering the county except the county boroughs of Wolverhampton, Walsall, and West Bromwich in the south (the area known as the Black Country), and Hanley in the north. The Act also saw the towns of Tamworth (partly in Warwickshire) and Burton upon Trent (partly in Derbyshire) united entirely in Staffordshire.


In 1553 Queen Mary made Lichfield a county corporate, meaning it was administered separately from the rest of Staffordshire. It remained so until 1888.


Handsworth and Perry Barr became part of the county borough of Birmingham in the early 20th century, and thus associated with Warwickshire. Burton, in the east of the county, became a county borough in 1901, and was followed by Smethwick, another town in the Black Country in 1907. In 1910 the six towns of the Staffordshire Potteries, including Hanley, became the single county borough of Stoke-on-Trent.




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


A significant boundary change occurred in 1926 when the east of Sedgley was transferred to Worcestershire to allow the construction of the new Priory Estate on land purchased by Dudley County Borough council.[3]


A major reorganisation in the Black Country in 1966, under the recommendation of the Local Government Commission for England led to the creation of an area of contiguous county boroughs. The County Borough of Warley was formed by the merger of the county borough of Smethwick and municipal borough of Rowley Regis with the Worcestershire borough of Oldbury: the resulting county borough was associated with Worcestershire. Meanwhile, the county borough of Dudley, historically a detached part of Worcestershire, expanded and became associated with Staffordshire instead. This reorganisation led to the administrative county of Staffordshire having a thin protrusion passing between the county boroughs (to the east) and Shropshire, to the west, to form a short border with Worcestershire.


Under the Local Government Act 1972, on 1 April 1974 the county boroughs of the Black Country and the Aldridge-Brownhills Urban District of Staffordshire became, along with Birmingham, Solihull, and Coventry and other districts, a new metropolitan county of West Midlands. County boroughs were abolished, with Stoke becoming a non-metropolitan district in Staffordshire, and Burton forming an unparished area in the district of East Staffordshire. On 1 April 1997, under a recommendation of the Banham Commission, Stoke-on-Trent became a unitary authority independent of Staffordshire once more.


In July 2009 the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found in Britain was discovered in a field near Lichfield. The artefacts, known as The Staffordshire Hoard have tentatively been dated to the 7th or 8th centuries, placing the origin of the items in the time of the Kingdom of Mercia.



Economy





Stafford town centre


This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of the non-metropolitan county of Staffordshire at current basic prices published (pp. 240–253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.































Year Regional gross value added[4]
Agriculture[5]
Industry[6]
Services[7]
1995 6,447 209 2,349 3,889
2000 8,621 150 2,986 5,485
2003 10,169 169 3,164 6,835

Some nationally and internationally known companies have their base in Staffordshire. They include the Britannia Building Society which is based in Leek. JCB is based in Rocester near Uttoxeter and bet365 based in Stoke-on-Trent. The theme park Alton Towers is in the Staffordshire Moorlands and several of the world's largest pottery manufacturers are based in Stoke-on-Trent.



Education



Staffordshire has a completely comprehensive system with eight independent schools. Most secondary schools are from 11–16 or 18, but two in Staffordshire Moorlands and South Staffordshire are from 13–18. Resources are shared where appropriate.


There are two universities in the county, Keele University in Newcastle-under-Lyme and Staffordshire University, which has campuses in Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford, Lichfield and Shrewsbury.[8]



Sport


The modern county of Staffordshire currently has three professional football clubs – Stoke City and Port Vale, both from Stoke-on-Trent, and Burton Albion, who play in Burton upon Trent.


Stoke City, one of the oldest professional football clubs in existence, were founded in 1863 and played at the Victoria Ground for 119 years from 1878 until their relocation to the Britannia Stadium in 1997. They were among the 12 founder members of the Football League in 1888.[9] By the late 1930s, they were established First Division members and boasted arguably the finest footballer in England at the time in right-winger Stanley Matthews, who had two spells with the club between 1930 and his retirement in 1965 at the age of 50.[10] In 1972, the club finally won a major trophy when they lifted the Football League Cup,[11] but after relegation from the First Division in 1985 they would not experience top flight football for 23 years.[12] After spending some two decades bouncing between the second and third tiers of the English league, they finally reclaimed their top flight status in 2008 by securing promotion to the Premier League.[13] Stoke City reached their first FA Cup final in 2011, but lost to Manchester City.[14]


Port Vale, who like Stoke City play in Stoke-on-Trent, were formed in 1876 and became members of the Football League in 1892. After more than 70 years at various stadiums around the city, the club moved to its present home, Vale Park, in 1950. In early 1936, they had eliminated First Division champions Sunderland from the FA Cup. Another FA Cup success came in February 1988 when they eliminated seven-time winners Tottenham Hotspur from the competition. Promotion to the Second Division for the first time since the 1960s was secured in 1989, and Vale would spend nine of the next 11 years at this level. However, the club has been less successful since the turn of the 21st century, and suffered relegation to League Two – the fourth tier of the English league – in 2008. The club has seen an upturn in its fortunes as the club was promoted from league two in the 2012-13 season and currently holds a place in Football League One.[15]


West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Walsall are also notable clubs based in the historic county boundaries.


The county's other professional football team is Burton Albion, based in Burton Upon Trent, who currently play in League One.


The county has a number of non-league football clubs, including Tamworth,[16]Stafford Rangers,[17]Hednesford Town[18] and Leek Town.[19] Cannock United,[20]


In cricket, Staffordshire is one of the nineteen Minor counties of English and Welsh cricket. It is represented in Minor counties cricket by Staffordshire County Cricket Club who have played in the Minor Counties Championship since 1895, a competition which it has won outright eleven times, making it the most successful Minor counties team. Famous international cricketers produced by the county include Sydney Barnes, Bob Taylor and Dominic Cork, all of whom went on to represent England.



Geography






Mow Cop Castle on the Staffordshire Moorlands


In the north and in the south, the county is hilly, with wild moorlands[21] and uplands of the Peak District in the far north,[22] and Cannock Chase an area of natural beauty in the south. In the middle regions, the landscape is low and undulating. Throughout the entire county there are vast and important coalfields. In the southern part, there are also rich iron ore deposits. The largest river is the Trent. The soil is chiefly clay and agriculture was not highly developed until the mechanisation of farms.


Staffordshire is home to the highest village in Britain, Flash. The village, in the Staffordshire Moorlands, stands at 463 m (1518 ft) above sea level. This record was confirmed in 2007 by the Ordnance Survey after Wanlockhead in Scotland also claimed the record. The BBC's The One Show investigated the case in a bid to settle the argument and Flash was confirmed as the higher of the two. The highest point in Staffordshire is Cheeks Point[23]



Green belt



Staffordshire contains sectors of three green belt areas, two of which surround the large conurbations of Stoke-on-Trent and the West Midlands, and were first drawn up from the 1950s. All the county's districts contain some portion of belt.



Demographics


According to the 2001 Census the population of the Non-metropolitan Staffordshire is 806,744 and the population of Stoke-on-Trent was 240,636 making a total population of 1,047,380. In non-metropolitan Staffordshire, White British is the largest ethnicity, making up 96% of the population. This is followed by White Irish, making up 0.6%. Non-White citizens make up 2% of the population.[24] 94% of the population was born in England, and those born in Scotland and Wales together make up 1% of the total population.[25]



Government


Staffordshire County Council is the top-tier local council for the non-metropolitan county. For Eurostat purposes, it is a NUTS 3 region (code UKG22).


Staffordshire operates a cabinet-style council. There are 62 councillors for Staffordshire. The Full Council elects a cabinet of 10 councillors, including the council leader, from the majority party. Each cabinet member has their own portfolio about which they make the "day to day" decisions.[26][27]



Latest Council election results


































































Staffordshire County Council election, 2017
Party
Seats
Gains
Losses
Net gain/loss
Seats %
Votes %
Votes
+/−
 

Conservative
51




53.8%


 

Labour
10




28%


 

UKIP
0




6%


 

Independent
1




2.7%




Boundary changes




Towns and villages




Historic towns/cities


Some settlements which were historically part of the county now fall under the West Midlands county:





West Midlands

Aldridge, Bilston, Bloxwich, Brierley Hill, Brownhills, Coseley, Darlaston, Harborne, Kingswinford, Rowley Regis, Sedgley, Smethwick, Tipton, Walsall, Wednesbury, Wednesfield, West Bromwich, Willenhall, Wolverhampton


Staffies


The Staffordshire Bull Terrier was bred for hunting purposes in this county and should not be confused with the considerably larger American Staffordshire Terrier, American Pit Bull Terrier, and (English) Bull Terrier. They are known affectionately as "staffies", "staffs", and "nanny-dogs".



Religion



Church of England


The only cathedral in the county is Lichfield Cathedral in the city of Lichfield. The Diocese of Lichfield covers the whole county with the exception of Stapenhill and Amington, the north of the nearby county of Shropshire and the Black Country area of the West Midlands. The county is covered by the archdeaconries of Stoke-upon-Trent and Lichfield. The current Bishop of Lichfield is Michael Ipgrave and the current Bishop of Stafford Geoff Annas. There are 298 Church of England churches in the county.



Roman Catholic Church


Staffordshire is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham. The current Archbishop is Bernard Longley.



Methodism


Primitive Methodism was founded in Staffordshire by Hugh Bourne, a native of Stoke-on-Trent, at a public gathering in the village of Mow Cop. He originally followed the Wesleyan form of Methodism but in 1801 he reformed the Methodist service by conducting it outside. By 1811 with his brother he founded the first chapel in the Tunstall area of Stoke-on-Trent.[28]



Judaism


The most popular synagogue in the county is on London Road in Newcastle-Under-Lyme, which opened in 2006 and replaced the former Birch Terrace synagogue in Hanley.[29] According to the 2001 census there were 407 Jewish people in the non-metropolitan area of Staffordshire,[30] and 83 in Stoke-on-Trent.[31]



Islam


There are 15 mosques in Stoke-on-Trent, 5 in Burton-upon-Trent and 1 in both Stafford and Lichfield.[32] A new mosque[33][34][35] is under construction[when?] in the Hanley area of Stoke-on-Trent and will be the first purpose-built mosque in the area. At the 2001 census there were 7,658 Muslims in Stoke-on-Trent and 6,081 in the rest of Staffordshire, with a total of 13,739 making up 1.3% of the population. 62.9% (3823) of the Muslims in the rest of Staffordshire are from the town of Burton-upon-Trent.[36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]



Transport



Canals


Staffordshire has an extensive network of canals including the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, Caldon Canal, Coventry Canal, Shropshire Union Canal, Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal and Trent and Mersey Canal.



Railways






Stone railway station in Stone.


The county is traversed primarily by the West Coast Main Line.



Roads


The county has relatively good links to the national roads network. Several major roads intersect the county, making it a popular location for commuters working in Birmingham. The M42 junction 10 is in Tamworth and the motorway heads southwest towards Birmingham. The M6 runs north through the county and junctions 10A-16 are in the county. The M6 Toll, the UK's first toll motorway, runs through the county with junctions in Weeford near Lichfield, Cannock and joins the M6 heading north towards Stafford.


The A5 and A34 run through the county. The former has been significantly widened to a dual carriageway at several sections, although much of it remains single carriageway.



Air


There are currently no airports with scheduled flights in the county with the nearest ones being Birmingham, East Midlands and Manchester depending on the location there is however Wolverhampton Airport in Bobbington and Tatenhill Airfield near Burton-upon-Trent both of which are small airports catering for General Aviation.



Media



Newspapers


Daily Newspapers in Staffordshire are The Sentinel covering Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme and the Staffordshire Moorlands, Burton Mail which covers the town of Burton-upon-Trent and the Express & Star which has several editions covering Tamworth, Lichfield, Cannock Chase and Stafford.



Radio


The local BBC radio stations covering Staffordshire are BBC Radio Stoke covering Mid and North Staffordshire, BBC WM covering the south of the county and BBC Radio Derby covering East Staffordshire. The local commercial radio stations are Signal 1 and Signal 2 which cover North and Mid Staffordshire, and Touch FM, which covers Burton, Lichfield and Tamworth. Further stations which cover parts of Staffordshire include Heart, Smooth, and Planet Rock which cover the southern parts of the county. Free Radio Birmingham covers Lichfield and Tamworth, and Free Radio Black Country covers the Cannock area.


Community radio

Staffordshire is served by a number of community radio stations. In North Staffordshire, there are five community radio stations – Moorlands Radio in Leek, 6 Towns Radio, based in Burslem, Cre8 FM, based at Staffordshire University, The Hitmix, based in Newcastle-under-Lyme and Cross Rhythms City Radio based in Hanley




The Broad Eye Windmill in Stafford, home of Windmill Broadcasting


In Stafford there are two community radio stations – Windmill Broadcasting, the UK's only radio station based in a Windmill, in the Broad Eye Windmill, and Stafford FM, which broadcasts to the town on 107.3 FM.
UCB United Christian Broadcasters UCB has been involved in radio broadcasting since 1987. Today it is broadcast nationally to over 53 million people in the UK through DAB digital radio.


In Cannock, there is Cannock Chase Radio, which broadcasts on 89.6 and 94.0 FM, and in Tamworth, there is TCR fm, which broadcasts locally on 106.8 FM.



Television


Staffordshire is predominantly covered by the ITV Central and BBC West Midlands television regions both of which have their studios in Birmingham. The far north of the county, around Biddulph, is served by ITV Granada and BBC North West from Media City UK in Salford.



Places of interest


























































Key
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Abbey/Priory/Cathedral
Accessible open space Accessible open space
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Amusement/Theme Park
CL icon.svg
Castle
Country Park
Country Park
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English Heritage

Forestry Commission
Heritage railway
Heritage railway
Historic house
Historic House

Museum (free)
Museum

Museum (free/not free)
National Trust
National Trust
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Theatre
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Zoo




  • Alton Towers Theme Park


  • Ancient High House HH icon.pngMuseum icon.png


  • Apedale Community Country Park CP icon.pngHR icon.svg


  • Biddulph Grange NTE icon.svg


  • Blithfield Hall HH icon.png


  • Blithfield Reservoir UKAL icon.png


  • Brindley Water Mill Museum icon (red).png

  • Broad Eye Windmill


  • Cannock Chase UKAL icon.png


  • Chasewater Railway HR icon.svg


  • Cheddleton Flint Mill Museum icon.png


  • Churnet Valley Railway HR icon.svg


  • Croxden Abbey EH icon.svgAP Icon.svg


  • Downs Banks NTE icon.svg


  • Drayton Manor Theme Park Theme Park


  • Eccleshall Castle CL icon.svg


  • Erasmus Darwin House Museum icon.pngHH icon.png


  • Ford Green Hall HH icon.png


  • Foxfield Steam Railway HR icon.svg


  • Gladstone Pottery Museum Museum icon.png


  • Hanley Park CP icon.png


  • Heart of England Way UKAL icon.png


  • Moseley Railway Trust (Apedale) HR icon.svgMuseum icon.pngCP icon.png


  • Ilam Park NTE icon.svg


  • Izaak Walton's Cottage HH icon.pngMuseum icon.png


  • Manifold Way following the route of the former Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway


  • National Brewery Centre Museum icon (red).png


  • Lichfield Cathedral AP Icon.svg


  • Madeley Old Hall HH icon.png


  • Monkey Forest at Trentham Gardens Zoo icon.jpg


  • Moseley Old Hall NTE icon.svg


  • Mow Cop Castle CL icon.svg

  • National Memorial Arboretum


  • Peak District National Park UKAL icon.png


  • RSPB Coombes Valley UKAL icon.png


  • Rudyard Lake Steam Railway HR icon.svg


  • Sandon Hall CP icon.png


  • Shugborough Estate NTE icon.svg


  • Stafford Castle CL icon.svg


  • Staffordshire Regiment Museum Museum icon (red).png


  • Staffordshire Way UKAL icon.png


  • Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Museum icon.png


  • Pennine Way UKAL icon.png


  • The Roaches UKAL icon.png


  • Tamworth Castle CL icon.svg


  • Trentham Gardens CP icon.png


  • Tutbury Castle CL icon.svg


  • Victoria Park, Stafford UKAL icon.png


  • Wall Roman Site EH icon.svgNTE icon.svg


  • Wedgwood Museum Museum icon (red).png


  • Weston Park HH icon.png


  • Whitmore Hall HH icon.png




Gallery




See also




  • Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire

  • High Sheriff of Staffordshire

  • List of MPs for Staffordshire

  • Samuel Hieronymus Grimm

  • The Stafford knot

  • Tamworth Pig

  • Healthcare in Staffordshire

  • Staffordshire Police

  • Staffordshire Police and Crime Commissioner



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External links












  • Wikisource "Staffordshire". Encyclopædia Britannica. 25 (11th ed.). 1911.


  • Staffordshire at Curlie

  • East Staffordshire Community Website

  • BBC Staffordshire website

  • Staffordshire County Council


  • Staffordshire Past Track – Historical archive about the county

  • Staffordshire Tourism website

  • The Staffordshire Encyclopaedia


  • Images of Staffordshire at the English Heritage Archive

  • The History of Parliament: the House of Commons - Staffordshire, County, 1386 to 1841












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