Staffordshire
Appearance
Staffordshire | |
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The Sherbrook Valley in Cannock Chase; a bottle kiln in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent; and Lichfield Cathedral | |
Staffordshire shown within England | |
| Coordinates: 52°48′25″N 02°06′58″W / 52.80694°N 2.11611°W | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | England |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Established | Ancient |
| Time zone | UTC±00:00 (Greenwich Mean Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+01:00 (British Summer Time) |
| Members of Parliament | List of MPs |
| Police | Staffordshire Police |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Lord Lieutenant | Professor Elizabeth Barnes CBE[1] |
| High Sheriff | Charles Jewitt of Admaston[2] (2020–21) |
| Area | 2,713 km2 (1,047 sq mi) |
| • Ranked | 18th of 48 |
| Population (2005 est.) | 1,055,000 |
| • Ranked | 14th of 48 |
| Density | 388/km2 (1,000/sq mi) |
| Ethnicity |
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| Non-metropolitan county | |
| County council | Staffordshire County Council |
| Executive | Labour |
| Admin HQ | Stafford |
| Area | 2,620 km2 (1,010 sq mi) |
| • Ranked | of 26 |
| Population | 816,700 |
| • Ranked | 8th of 26 |
| Density | 311/km2 (810/sq mi) |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-STS |
| ONS code | 41 |
| GSS code | E10000028 |
| ITL | UKG24 |
| Website | staffordshire |
| Districts | |
Districts of Staffordshire Unitary County council area | |
| Districts | |
Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Stafford. Part of the National Forest is there. It is next to the counties of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire and Shropshire.
The largest city in ceremonial Staffordshire is Stoke-on-Trent.
Places of interest
[change | change source]| Key | |
| Owned by the National Trust | |
| Owned by English Heritage | |
| Owned by the Forestry Commission | |
| A Country Park | |
| An Accessible open space | |
| Museum (free) | |
| Museum (charges entry fee) | |
| Heritage railway | |
| Historic House | |
Other websites
[change | change source]- Staffordshire County Council
- Staffordshire Past Track - Historical archive about the county
- The story of a Staffordshire Home Guard Battalion, 1940-1944
- Staffordshire Photographs
- Staffordshire Tourism website Archived 2014-12-18 at the Wayback Machine
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Staffordshire.
- ↑ "The Lord-Lieutenant and Vice Lord-Lieutenant". Staffordshire County Council. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
- ↑ "No. 62943". The London Gazette. 13 March 2020. p. 5161.