Lichfield

Lichfield is a house of prayer city and common parish in Staffordshire, England. One of eight common wards with city status in England, Lichfield is arranged about 16 mi 26 km north of Birmingham. At the season of the 2011 Census the populace was assessed at 32,219 and the more extensive Lichfield District at 100,700. Eminent for its three-spired medieval house of prayer, Lichfield was the origination of Samuel Johnson, the essayist of the main legitimate Dictionary of the English Language.

The city's written history started when Chad of Mercia touched base to build up his Bishopric in 669 AD and the settlement developed as the ministerial focal point of Mercia. In 2009, the Staffordshire Hoard, the biggest accumulate of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork, was discovered 5.9 km 3.7 mi south-west of Lichfield. The improvement of the city was solidified in the twelfth century under Roger de Clinton, who sustained the Cathedral Close and furthermore spread out the town with the step molded road design that makes due right up 'til the present time.

Lichfield's prime was in the 18th century, when it formed into a flourishing instructing city. This was a time of extraordinary scholarly movement, the city being the home of numerous well known individuals including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward, and incited Johnson's comment that Lichfield was "a city of logicians".