West Midlands
Staffordshire
Stafford District

Stafford

Stafford is a market town and the county town of , England. It is located about 15 miles south of , 15 miles north of , and 24 miles northwest of .
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  • Type: Town with 71,700 residents
  • Description: county town of Staffordshire in the West Midlands, England
  • Also known as: “Stafford, Staffordshire”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Stafford railway station and Ancient High House.

Railway station
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Stafford is a major interchange railway station in Stafford, , England; it is the second busiest in the county, after . It serves the market and county town, as well as surrounding villages.

Museum
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The is an Elizabethan town house located on the main street in Stafford. The house was constructed in 1595 by the Dorrington family, from local oak, which anecdotally came from the nearby Doxey Wood, and is the largest timber framed town house in .

Library
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The is a library and archive, in Stafford, Staffordshire, England. Supported by Staffordshire County Council, it is a registered charity, administered by an independent trust in conjunction with the Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service, which also operates the county archives from an adjacent building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Doxey and Hyde Lea.

Village
is a village and civil parish in the borough of Stafford in , England; it is a north-western suburb of Stafford. It became a civil parish on 1 April 2005.

Village
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is a village and parish in , England, just west of Stafford itself. borders the southern boundary of Castle Church parish.

Village
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is a small village on the north-western edge of Stafford, the county town of Staffordshire, England situated on elevated ground above the wide floodplain and extensive marshes of the . is situated 2 miles northwest of Stafford.

Stafford

Latitude
52.8063° or 52° 48′ 23″ north
Longitude
-2.1164° or 2° 6′ 59″ west
Population
71,700
Elevation
253 feet (77 metres)
IATA airport code
XVB
United Nations Location Code
GB SRD
Open location code
9C4VRV4M+GC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2395889476
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2637142
Wiki­data ID
Q826782
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Stafford” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Stafford”
  • Asturian: “Stafford”
  • Basque: “Stafford”
  • Belarusian: “Стафард”
  • Bengali: “স্ট্যাফোর্ড”
  • Bulgarian: “Стафорд”
  • Catalan: “Stafford”
  • Cebuano: “Stafford (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
  • Cebuano: “Stafford”
  • Chinese: “斯塔福德”
  • Czech: “Stafford”
  • Danish: “Stafford”
  • Dutch: “Stafford”
  • Esperanto: “Stafford”
  • Esperanto: “Stafordo”
  • Finnish: “Stafford”
  • French: “Stafford”
  • German: “Stafford”
  • Greek: “Στάφορντ”
  • Gujarati: “સ્ટેફોર્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “סטפורד”
  • Hindi: “स्टैफ़र्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Stafford”
  • Icelandic: “Stafford”
  • Indonesian: “Stafford”
  • Irish: “Stafford”
  • Italian: “Stafford”
  • Japanese: “スタッフォード”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಟಾಫರ್ಡ್”
  • Korean: “스태퍼드”
  • Korean: “스태포드”
  • Ladin: “Stafford”
  • Latin: “Staffordia”
  • Latvian: “Steforda”
  • Lithuanian: “Stafordas”
  • Low German: “Stafford”
  • Malagasy: “Stafford”
  • Moksha: “Стаффорд”
  • Northern Frisian: “Stafford”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stafford”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stafford”
  • Norwegian: “Stafford”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Stæfford”
  • Ossetian: “Стаффорд”
  • Persian: “استافورد (انگلستان)”
  • Persian: “استافورد، انگلستان”
  • Persian: “استافورد”
  • Polish: “Stafford”
  • Portuguese: “Stafford”
  • Quechua: “Stafford”
  • Romanian: “Stafford”
  • Russian: “Stafford”
  • Russian: “Стаффорд”
  • Scots: “Stafford”
  • Serbian: “Stafford”
  • Serbian: “Staford”
  • Serbian: “Стафорд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Stafford”
  • Slovak: “Stafford”
  • Slovenian: “Stafford”
  • South Azerbaijani: “استافورد”
  • Spanish: “Stafford”
  • Swedish: “Stafford”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்டாப்போர்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Стәффорд”
  • Telugu: “స్టాఫోర్డ్”
  • Ukrainian: “Стаффорд”
  • Urdu: “سٹیفورڈ”
  • Volapük: “Stafford”
  • Welsh: “Stafford”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Stafford”. Photo: Stocksy, Public domain.