Stafford

:This article is about the town of Stafford, England. For other uses, see Stafford (disambiguation)

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Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire in England. It lies in the north of the West Midlands region, between Wolverhampton and Stoke-on-Trent, in the Pyrehill hundred. The population of Stafford town in 2001 was 60,049. The surrounding borough of Stafford has a population of about 120,000.

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Stafford means ford by a landing place. The town's location was the only feasible place for a large army to cross the river Trent, and so was strategically important in the wider region. The original settlement was on an island in the middle of the marshes of the river Sow, a tributary of the Trent. There is still a large area of marshland adjacent to the town centre, which in both 1947 and 2000 saw floods.

County town: A county town is the 'capital' of a county in the United Kingdom or Ireland. County towns are usually the location of administrative or judicial functions, or established over time as the de facto main town of a county....

Staffordshire: Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region 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, Worcestershire ...

England: :For an explanation of often confusing terms like England, (Great) Britain and United Kingdom see British Isles (terminology)....

Stafford related Images and Photos (experimental)

Stafford County I	Jo Stafford	Matthew Stafford Fathead Junior	Matt Stafford 2010 Action
Drew Stafford 2010-11 Action	Matthew Stafford 2010 Action	Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Walter M. Schirra Leaving Capsule after Gemini 6 Splashdown	Portrait of Elizabeth Stafford Lady Drury Wearing an Embroidered Black and White Dress
Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and Thomas P. Stafford Preparing for Liftoff of Gemini 9	The Happy Pair: an Unidentified Couple from Stafford England