Stafford (Royaume-Uni)

Stafford (ˈstæfərd) is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It lies about north of Wolverhampton, south of Stoke-on-Trent and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 71,673 in the 2021 census, It is the main settlement within the larger borough of Stafford which had a population of 136,837 (2021). Stafford means "ford" by a staithe (landing place). The original settlement was on a dry sand and gravel peninsula that offered a strategic crossing point in the marshy valley of the River Sow, a tributary of the River Trent. There is still a large area of marshland north-west of the town, which is subject to flooding and did so in 1947, 2000, 2007 and 2019. Stafford is thought to have been founded about AD 700 by a Mercian prince called Bertelin, who, legend has it, founded a hermitage on a peninsula named Betheney. Until recently it was thought that the remains of a wooden preaching cross from the time had been found under the remains of St Bertelin's Chapel, next to the later collegiate Church of St Mary in the town centre. Recent reappraisal of the evidence shows this to be a misinterpretation – it was a tree-trunk coffin placed centrally in the first, timber chapel around the time that Æthelflæd founded the burh in 913. It may have been placed there as a commemoration or veneration of St Bertelin. Already a centre for delivering grain tribute in the Early Middle Ages, Stafford was commandeered in July 913 by Æthelflæd, Lady of Mercia, to construct a burh there. This fortification provided an industrial area for centralised production of Roman-style pottery (Stafford Ware), which was supplied to a chain of West Midlands burhs. Æthelflæd and her younger brother, King Edward the Elder of Wessex, were trying to complete their father King Alfred the Great's programme of moulding England into a single kingdom.

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Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton (pron. : - ) est une ville britannique située dans les West Midlands (Angleterre). Elle a le statut de Cité. Historiquement intégrée au comté de Staffordshire, elle fait partie du comté métropolitain des Midlands de l'Ouest depuis 1974. Le nom de la ville est communément reconnu comme dérivant de Lady Wulfruna, fondatrice de la ville en 985. Le nom de Wulfruna est couramment utilisé dans la ville - par exemple, pour le Centre Wulfrun ou pour Wulfrun Hall. Le nom de la ville est souvent abrégé en « Wolvo », « W'ton » ou « Wolves ».

Uttoxeter

Uttoxeter (juːˈtɒksᵻtər , ˈʊtʃᵻtə ) is a market town and civil parish in East Staffordshire, England, near to the Derbyshire county border. The town is from Burton upon Trent via the A50 and the A38, from Stafford via the A518, from Stoke-on-Trent via the A50, and from Derby via the A50 and the A38, and north-east of Rugeley via the A518 and the B5013. The population was 14,014 at the 2021 Census. The town's literary connections include Samuel Johnson and Mary Howitt.

Burton upon Trent

Burton upon Trent, connue aussi comme Burton-on-Trent ou simplement Burton, est une ville située sur le fleuve Trent, à la limite est du comté de Staffordshire, en Angleterre. Burton upon Trent est surtout connue pour son patrimoine brassicole, puisqu'elle qui abrita plus d'une douzaine de brasseries à son apogée, dont actuellement Molson Coors. Le Burton Albion Football Club est basé dans la ville. La ville est jumelée avec Rochefort (Charente-Maritime). Gary Croft, footballeur, y est né en 1973 Robert W.