Lichfield

Local nameLichfield
LocationUK

Lichfield () is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. Lichfield is situated 18 miles south-east of Stafford, 9 miles north-east of Walsall, 8 miles north-west of Tamworth and 13 miles south-west of Burton Upon Trent. At the time of the 2021 Census, the population was 34,738 and the population of the wider Lichfield District was 106,400.Notable for its three-spired medieval cathedral, Lichfield was the birthplace of Samuel Johnson, the writer of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language. The city's recorded history began when Chad of Mercia arrived to establish his Bishopric in 669 AD and the settlement grew as the ecclesiastical centre of Mercia. In 2009, the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork, was found 4 mi south-west of Lichfield.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichfield

Coordinates 52°41'3.73" N -1°49'39.103" E

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