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  2. Stafford - Wikipedia

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    Stafford Castle was defended by a garrison led by Lady Isabel Stafford, but the Parliamentarians finally won control in 1643. A few months later an order was given for the demolition of the castle. [10] However, Stafford's famous son Izaak Walton, author of The Compleat Angler, was a staunch Royalist. [4]

  3. Staffordshire - Wikipedia

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    Staffordshire (/ ˈ s t æ f ər d ʃ ɪər,-ʃ ər /; [4] postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands county and Worcestershire to the south, and Shropshire to the west.

  4. Stafford Castle - Wikipedia

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    Stafford Castle is an ancient Grade II listed castle situated two miles west of the town of Stafford in Staffordshire, England.From the time of the Norman Conquest and as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 it was the seat of the powerful Anglo-Norman Stafford family (originally de Tosny, later via a female line [1] de Stafford), feudal barons of Stafford, later Barons Stafford (1299) by ...

  5. History of Staffordshire - Wikipedia

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    The county symbol, the Staffordshire Knot, is seen on an Anglian stone cross that dates from around the year 805. The cross still stands in Stoke churchyard. Thus the Knot is either i) an ancient Mercian symbol or ii) a symbol adopted from the Irish Christianity, Christianity having been brought to Staffordshire by Irish monks from Lindisfarne about AD 650.

  6. University of Staffordshire - Wikipedia

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    In 1901, industrialist Alfred Bolton acquired a 2-acre (8,100 m 2) site on what is now College Road and in 1906 mining classes began there.In 1907, pottery classes followed, being transferred from Tunstall into temporary buildings, and in 1914 the building now known as the Cadman Building was officially opened as the Central School of Science and Technology by J. A. Pease, President of the ...

  7. The Overhang: Matthew Stafford has unlocked the most ... - AOL

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    And because the sports gods have a sense of humor, in the first home Lions playoff game in 30 years, that very same Stafford-led Rams team happens to be the wild-card opponent, as the teams meet ...

  8. Borough of Stafford - Wikipedia

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    The Borough of Stafford is a local government district with borough status in Staffordshire, England. It is named after Stafford , its largest town, which is where the council is based. The borough also includes the towns of Stone and Eccleshall , as well as numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.

  9. Staffordshire Hoard - Wikipedia

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    The hoard includes almost 4,600 items and metal fragments, [8] [1] totalling 5.094 kg (11.23 lb) of gold and 1.442 kg (3.18 lb) of silver, with 3,500 cloisonné garnets [6] [9] and is the largest treasure of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver objects discovered to date, eclipsing, at least in quantity, the 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) hoard found in the Sutton Hoo ship burial in 1939.