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City of Lichfield

Lichfield
  • City of Lichfield
Lichfield Collage.jpg
From top left: Lichfield Cathedral; Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum; Quonians Lane; Garrick Theatre; Cityscape.
Lichfield is located in Staffordshire
Lichfield
Lichfield
Lichfield shown within Staffordshire
Area 14.02 km2 (5.41 sq mi) 
Population 32,219 
• Density 2,298/km2 (5,950/sq mi)
OS grid reference SK115097
• London 110 miles (180 km) NNW
Civil parish
  • Lichfield
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town LICHFIELD
Postcode district WS13, WS14
Dialling code 01543
Police Staffordshire
Fire Staffordshire
Ambulance West Midlands
EU Parliament West Midlands
UK Parliament
Website www.lichfield.gov.uk
List of places
UK
England
Staffordshire
52°41′01″N 1°49′36″W / 52.6835°N 1.82653°W / 52.6835; -1.82653Coordinates: 52°41′01″N 1°49′36″W / 52.6835°N 1.82653°W / 52.6835; -1.82653

Lichfield /ˈlɪfld/ is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. One of eight civil parishes with city status in England, Lichfield is situated roughly 16 mi (26 km) north of Birmingham. At the time of the 2011 Census the population was estimated at 32,219 and the wider Lichfield District at 100,700.

Notable for its three-spired medieval cathedral, Lichfield was the birthplace of Samuel Johnson, the writer of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language. The city's recorded history began when Chad of Mercia arrived to establish his Bishopric in 669 AD and the settlement grew as the ecclesiastical centre of Mercia. In 2009, the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork, was found 5.9 km (3.7 mi) south-west of Lichfield.

The development of the city was consolidated in the 12th century under Roger de Clinton, who fortified the Cathedral Close and also laid out the town with the ladder-shaped street pattern that survives to this day. Lichfield's heyday was in the 18th century, when it developed into a thriving coaching city. This was a period of great intellectual activity, the city being the home of many famous people including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward, and prompted Johnson's remark that Lichfield was "a city of philosophers".


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