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[[Biliþ:Stafford town centre.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Stæfford burg middel]]
:''Þis tramet is ymbe þone tūn on Stæffordscīre on Englum. For ōðrum brycum, sēo [[Stæfford (scirung)]]''
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'''Stæfford''' (oþþe '''Stæþford''') is þǣre [[Stæffordscīr]]e [[scīrtūn]] on [[Englaland|Englum]]. He standeþ norðe þāra [[Blæc Land]]e, betƿēonan [[Heantun]]e and [[Stoc (on Trente)|Stoce]]. Stæffordes lēodtelle in [[1991]] ƿæs 60,915. Sēo ymbstandende Stæfford burgscipe hǣfþ lēodtelle ymbe 120,000.
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==Stǣr==
''Stæþford'' means ''[[ford (river)|ford]] by a landing place''. The original settlement was on an island in the middle of the marshes of the [[River Sow]], a tributary of the [[Trente ēa|Trente]]. There is still a large area of marshland adjacent to the town centre, which in both [[1947]] and [[2000]] saw floods. In the year [[913]] Stafford was [[fortification|fortified]] be [[Æþelflæd]], [[Ælfred sē Grēate|Ælfredes þæs Grēatan]] dōhtor, to keep out the [[Dene]]. [[Stafford Castle]] was built on a nearby hilltop late in the [[11th century]]. It has been rebuilt twice since but now only [[19th century]] ruins remain atop the impressive earthworks. In the main shopping street, Greengate Street, lies the [[Elizabethan]] [[Ancient High House]], the largest [[Half-timbering|timber-framed]] town house in England.
==Lēode==
Famous people from Stafford include the [[17th century]] author of ''[[The Compleat Angler]]'', [[Izaak Walton]] and the [[18th century]] playwright [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan]], who was also the local [[Member of Parliament|MP]]. Ēac wæs sē [[1853]] Hlaford [[Burgealdor]] of [[Lundenceaster|Lunden]]e, [[Thomas Sidney]] in þǣre byrig geboren. More recently Stafford was the birthplace of ''[[Men Behaving Badly]]'' star [[Neil Morrissey]] and where [[stand-up comedian]] [[Dave Gorman]] was brought up. Author [[Storm Constantine]] is a long-time resident. [[Ozzy Osbourne]] lived nearby.
==Economy==
A major activity in the town since [[1903]] has been heavy [[electrical engineering]], particularly producing [[power station]] [[transformer]]s, exported around the world. The works have been successively owned by [[Siemens AG|Siemens]], [[English Electric]], [[The General Electric Company plc|GEC]], GEC Alsthom, [[Alstom]] and most recently [[Areva]]. Every so often a delivery takes to the road. Each transformer weighs several hundred [[ton]]s and so a sort of [[road train]] is used. The weight is spread by a 160-wheel cradle, pulled by an 8-wheel drive [[FAUN]] ''[[Goliath]]'' tractor unit and pushed by two more.
== Nēa Stedas ==
* [[Cannock Chase]]
* [[Shugborough Heall]]
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== Ūtanƿearde Hlencas ==
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