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Staffordshire

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Staffordshire
Image:EnglandStaffordshire.png
Geography
Status: Ceremonial & (smaller) Administrative County
Region: West Midlands
Area:
- Total
- Admin. council
- Admin. area
Ranked 18th
2,713 km²
Ranked 18th
2,620 km²
Admin HQ: Stafford
GB-STS
ONS code: 41
NUTS 3: UKG24
Demographics
Population:
- Total (2002 est.)
- Density
- Admin. council
- Admin. pop.
Ranked 15th
1,047,528
386 / km²
Ranked 7th
808,952
Ethnicity: 97.0% White
1.7% S.Asian
Politics
Arms of Staffordshire County Council

Staffordshire County Council
http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/
Executive: Labour
Members of Parliament
Charlotte Atkins, William Cash, Patrick Cormack, Janet Dean, Michael Fabricant, Paul Farrelly, Mark Fisher, Brian Jenkins, David Kidney, George Stevenson, Joan Walley, Tony Wright
Districts
Image:Staffordshire_Ceremonial_Numbered.png
  1. Tamworth
  2. Lichfield
  3. Cannock Chase
  4. South Staffordshire
  5. Stafford
  6. Newcastle-under-Lyme
  7. Staffordshire Moorlands
  8. East Staffordshire
  9. Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary)
Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the Midlands 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 and Shropshire.

Major conurbations in Staffordshire include Stoke-on-Trent, Burton-upon-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Tamworth and Stafford itself.

Staffordshire is divided into a number of districts. These are Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Newcastle-under-Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands and Tamworth. Stoke-on-Trent is administered as a seperate unitary authority.

Table of contents
1 History
2 Towns and villages
3 Places of interest
4 Local Groups

History

The historic county of Staffordshire included Wolverhampton, Walsall, and West Bromwich, these were removed in 1974 to the new county of West Midlands. The resulting administrative area of Staffordshire has a narrow southwards protrusion that runs west of West Midlands to the border of Worcestershire. Further, Stoke-on-Trent was removed in the 1990s to form a unitary authority, but is still considered part of Staffordshire for ceremonial purposes.

Historically, Staffordshire was divided into the five hundredss of Cuttlestone, Offlow, Pirehill, Seisdon and Totmonslow.

Towns and villages

Places of interest

Local Groups



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