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Lichfield / Vereinigtes Königreich

Lichfield ist eine Stadt in der englischen Region West Midlands und der Grafschaft Staffordshire, etwa 160 km nordwestlich von London und 25 km nördlich von Birmingham gelegen. Die Stadt zählt 27.900 Einwohner , ist der Verwaltungssitz des gleichnamigen Distrikts und liegt nahe dem Fluss Trent, eingebettet zwischen Hügeln im Süden und Osten. Lichfield hat eine lange Tradition als Bischofssitz. Der erste neuseeländische Bischof und spätere Primas der anglikanischen Kirche in Neuseeland, George Augustus Selwyn, wurde 1868 Bischof von Lichfield. In der Nähe von Lichfield wurde im Jahr 2009 der Schatz von Staffordshire aus dem 7. Jahrhundert n. Chr. geborgen.

Kathedrale von Lichfield

Lichfield / Vereinigtes Königreich

Die Kathedrale von Lichfield ist eine dem hl. Chad von York und der Jungfrau Maria geweihte Bischofskirche der Church of England in der gut 30 km nördlich von Birmingham gelegenen mittelenglischen Stadt Lichfield in der Grafschaft Staffordshire im ehemaligen angelsächsischen Königreich Mercia.

Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum

Lichfield / Vereinigtes Königreich

Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum is a biographical museum and bookshop located in the centre of the city of Lichfield, Staffordshire, in England. The building is a Grade I listed building situated at the corner of Market Street and Breadmarket Street opposite the market square.The museum opened in 1901 and is dedicated to the life and works of the author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson who wrote the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language. Johnson's father built the house in 1707 and Samuel was born in the house on 18 September 1709 and spent the majority of his first 27 years in the house before leaving for London in 1737. The house was used as a commercial property for various trades between the time of Johnson's death in 1784 until the house was bought for the city by John Gilbert in 1900 for the purpose of retaining the building as a museum to Johnson. The house remains in active use as a museum.

Staffordshire Regiment Museum

Lichfield / Vereinigtes Königreich

The Staffordshire Regiment Museum is a military museum in Staffordshire, England, preserving the history of the Staffordshire Regiment , its antecedent regiments and its successor regiment, the Mercian Regiment, from 1705 to the present. The Staffordshire Regiment was an Infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1959 by the amalgamation of the South Staffordshire Regiment and the North Staffordshire Regiment.The museum is adjacent to Whittington Barracks, the former home of The Staffordshire Regiment's antecedent regiments since 1881, and the current base for the Regimental Headquarters of The Mercian Regiment and the Defence Medical Services. It is located in Whittington, Staffordshire on the A51 Lichfield-Tamworth Road, 3 miles from Lichfield and 4 miles from Tamworth. The museum is 6 miles from the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire.

Erasmus Darwin House

Lichfield / Vereinigtes Königreich

Erasmus Darwin was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher beginning his journals on Galapagos Islands, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, inventor and poet. His poems included much natural history, including a statement of evolution and the relatedness of all forms of life. He was a member of the Darwin–Wedgwood family, which includes his grandsons Charles Darwin and Francis Galton. Darwin was a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers. He turned down an invitation of George III's to become a physician to the King.