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 north-west 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 County Hospital.

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.

Hospital
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is an acute hospital with fewer than 200 inpatient beds, opened in 1983. It is the main hospital in Stafford, England. The hospital is managed by University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust.

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 .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Doxey and Creswell.

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

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.

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.

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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Satellite Map

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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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