Staffordshire festivals

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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-02. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-03.

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County description

The Historic Counties Trust describes Staffordshire as follows:

Staffordshire stretches from the Black Country in the south into forest in the north. South-eastern Staffordshire is covered by urban growth arising from its central part in the Industrial Revolution. This is the Black Country, rich in coal mines and strung with industrial canals. The heavy industry of the nineteenth century gathered here and in nearby Birmingham, so that all have grown together into a giant conurbation of communities, in which are the City of Wolverhampton, West Bromwich, Walsall and Wednesbury. In complete contrast, elsewhere there is fine natural scenery. Dovedale, on the boundary of Staffordshire, and Beresford Dale are renowned. The high ground in the north of the county north of Leek has beautiful valleys as the land rises up to the Peak District. The Potteries district lies on the upper Trent, where Stoke on Trent and Newcastle under Lyme have grown together. In the centre of the county is Stafford itself. Lichfield is one of the smaller cities of the land. Restrained in its houses and shops, the city has a large and ornate three-spired mediæval cathedral. The bishopric is one of the oldest in Britain (and indeed it became briefly the seat of an archbishop under King Offa). Eastward there remains something of the open heaths of Cannock Chase. Burton-on-Trent in the east is historically the heart of the brewing industry, a continuing tradition.

Main Towns: Burslem, Burton upon Trent, Hanley, Leek, Lichfield, Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford, Uttoxeter, Walsall, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton.
Main Rivers: Trent, Penk, Sow, Blithe, Tean, Dove, Churnet, Tame.
Highlights: Alton Towers; Castle Ring hill fort; Lichfield Cathedral; Wightwick Bank; Wedgwood factory, Barlaston; Weston Park.
Highest Point: Cheeks Hill, 519.68 m.
Area: 3032.88 km2.[1]

Localities

Localities in Staffordshire with evidence of Robin Hood-related festivals.[2]

Background

Notes

  1. The Historic Counties Trust has kindly allowed me to quote its county descriptions in toto. I have converted square miles to km2 and feet to meters.
  2. It has been suggested, without any supportive evidence being cited, that the Maiden's Well in Uttoxeter owed its former alternative name of 'Marian's Well' to the 'floral festivity' of Maid Marian having 'probably been celebrated at it'. See 1886 - Redfern, Francis - History and Antiquities of Town of Uttoxeter (2).

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