William Salt Library
The William Salt Library 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.Photo: Simon Huguet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ancient High House and St Chad’s Church, Stafford.
Ancient High House
Museum
Photo: Stocksy, Public domain.
The Ancient High House 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 England. Ancient High House is situated 710 feet west of William Salt Library.
St Chad’s Church, Stafford
Church
Photo: Stephen Pearce, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Chad's Church, on Greengate Street in the centre of Stafford, is a Grade II* listed Anglican church. Saint Chad, who died in 672, was the first Bishop of Lichfield. St Chad’s Church, Stafford is situated 550 feet southwest of William Salt Library.
St Mary’s Church, Stafford
Church
Photo: David Neill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary's Church, Stafford is a Grade I listed parish church in Stafford, Staffordshire, England. St Mary’s Church, Stafford is situated 910 feet west of William Salt Library.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stafford and Doxey.
Stafford
Photo: Stocksy, Public domain.
Stafford is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, England. It is located about 15 miles south of Stoke-on-Trent, 15 miles north of Wolverhampton and 24 miles north-west of Birmingham.
Doxey
Village
Doxey is a village and civil parish in the borough of Stafford in Staffordshire, England; it is a north-western suburb of Stafford. It became a civil parish on 1 April 2005.
Derrington
Village
Derrington is a village west of the town of Stafford, in Staffordshire, England. For population details from the 2011 census see under Seighford. Derrington had an 18th-century pub, The Red Lion, but it has ceased trading. Derrington is situated 2 miles west of William Salt Library.
William Salt Library
- Type: Library
- Description: library and archive in Stafford, England
- Categories: archives, building, and education
- Location: Stafford District, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.80674° or 52° 48′ 24″ northLongitude
-2.11403° or 2° 6′ 51″ westOpen location code
9C4VRV4P+M9OpenStreetMap ID
way 191261585OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=libraryOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q17530977
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“William Salt Library” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “William Salt Library”
- French: “William Salt Library”
- German: “William Salt Library”
- Italian: “William Salt Library”
- Spanish: “William Salt Library”
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