Stafford (Staffordshire)

Stafford is a town in the Borough of Stafford, in the English County of Staffordshire.

Stafford was traditionally the seat of the County of Staffordshire. It is located in the West Midlands in England, approximately between two cities Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent.The original town is slowly becoming fused with some originally located village centres around it and now consists of ca. 50,000 (2002) inhabitants.

The 18th century comedy writer Richard Brinsley Sheridan has lived some time in a house where the post office now stands, as well as Izaak Walton (1593-1683), the author of the classic fishing book The Compleat Angler, whose cottage still on display.

The ancient High House in greengate Street is one of the remnants of a fairly distant past and dating (just barely) from the 16th century.

In the early 1990s Stafford to the attention during the heyday of British Rave. From the town came the [http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBizarre_inc. Bizarre Inc.] and acts Altern-8, which in the period 1991-1992 both reached the UK singles chart. ==Born[ Edit] ==
 * Christopher Birchall (5 May 1984), Trinidad & Tobago footballer