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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Lichfield, List of civil parishes in Staffordshire, Thorpe Constantine, Clifton Campville, Whittington, Staffordshire, Harlaston, Edingale, Hednesford, Wall, Staffordshire, Fradley, Curborough and Elmhurst, Alrewas, Fazeley, Elford, Colton, Staffordshire, High Offley, Cannock Wood, Streethay, Kings Bromley, Burntwood, Brindley Heath, Hints, Weeford, Norton Canes, Hammerwich, Shenstone, Staffordshire, Mavesyn Ridware, Wigginton and Hopwas, Fisherwick, Drayton Bassett, Armitage with Handsacre, Longdon, Staffordshire, Hamstall Ridware, Farewell and Chorley, Swinfen and Packington, Heath Hayes and Wimblebury, Bridgtown, Dunstall, Onecote, Outwoods, East Staffordshire, Adbaston, Uttoxeter Rural, Shareshill, Acton Trussell and Bednall, Bradley, Staffordshire, Checkley. Excerpt: Lichfield ( ) is a cathedral city, civil parish and district in Staffordshire, England. One of eight civil parishes with city status in England, Lichfield is situated roughly 25 km (16 miles) north of Birmingham. In 2008, its population was estimated to be 30,583 and the wider Lichfield district at 97,900. Notable for its three-spired medieval cathedral and as the birthplace of Samuel Johnson, the writer of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language. The recorded history of Lichfield began when St Chad arrived to establish his Bishopric in 669 CE and the settlement grew as the ecclesiastical centre of the Kingdom of Mercia. In 2009 the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork was found 5.9 km (3.7 miles) south west of Lichfield. The development of the city was consolidated in the 12th century under Bishop Clinton who fortified the Close, and also laid out the town with the ladder-shaped street pattern that survives to this day. Lichfields heyday was in the 18th century when it developed into a...
