Lichfield itself was unwalled and had become rather poor, so Bishop Peter moved the see to the fortified and wealthier Chester in 1075.

The constituency includes the northern and central parts of the Lichfield local government district, including the city of Lichfield itself, Burntwood, and also the south-western portion of East Staffordshire district, including Yoxall, Barton-under-Needwood, and Abbots Bromley.

The village lies in Lichfield District, and the council ward of Kings Bromley had a population of 1, 651 at the time of the 2001 census, ( although this area covers a few other small settlements in addition to the parish of Kings Bromley itself, including the villages of Hamstall Ridware and Elmhurst ).

The Trent Valley Railway ( TVR ), which connected the London and Birmingham Railway ( L & BR ) at with the Grand Junction Railway ( GJR ) at, was formed on 21 July 1845 and opened on 15 September 1847, and included a station at Lichfield ; in the meantime, the L & BR, GJR and Manchester and Birmingham Railway had amalgamated in July 1846 as the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ), which itself absorbed the TVR later in 1846.

In 1767 James Keir visited Darwin in Lichfield, where he was introduced to Boulton, Small, Wedgwood and Whitehurst and subsequently decided to move to Birmingham.

In 803, Lichfield was a regular diocese again.

In July 2009, the Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold was discovered in a field near Lichfield in Staffordshire.

Lichfield was the religious centre of Mercia.

This controversial figure was given land by King Wulfhere to build a monastery at Lichfield.

Her home had been Lichfield House in the centre of town ; it was replaced by a block of flats in 1936, Lichfield Court, now listed.

The account of the quarrel with Dunstan and Cynesige, bishop of Lichfield at the coronation feast is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and in the later chronicle of John of Worcester and was written by monks supportive of Dunstan's position.

Poppet ( 1912 – 1997 ), John's daughter by his second wife, married the Dutch painter Willem Jilts Pol ( 1905 – 1988 ) whose daughter Talitha ( 1940 – 1971 ), a fashion icon of 1960s London, married John Paul Getty, was famously photographed in Marrakesh by Patrick Lichfield, and, after a brief hedonistic life, died of a drug overdose.

His first novel ' A Nest of Singing Birds ' was awarded the prestigious Lichfield Prize.

The delay was to prove fatal ; it was a necessity of the case foreseen and accepted when the march to Worcester had been decided upon, and had the other course, that of marching on London via Lichfield, been taken the battle would have been fought three days earlier with the same result.

In April 1980 a parish council was created for Lichfield, and the charter trustees established six years earlier were dissolved.

The Gospels of Saint Chad ( Lichfield Cathedral, Chapter Library ) employ a very similar style to the Lindisfarne Gospels, and it is even speculated that the artist was attempting to emulate Eadfrith ’ s work ( Backhouse 1981, 66 ).

Other visitors of Guthlac's included Bishop Haedde of Lichfield, an influential Mercian, and it may be that Guthlac's support was politically useful to Æthelbald in gaining the throne.

According to John Lichfield in a 14 July 2009 interview published in the Independent, she was working on an autobiography and had hoped to have a first draft by September 2009.

Edward Wightman, a Baptist from Burton on Trent, was the last person to be burnt at the stake for heresy in England in the market square of Lichfield, Staffordshire on 11 April 1612.

Lichfield Cathedral's ornate West Front was extensively renovated by Scott from 1855-1878.

Jaruman was not the first bishop of Lichfield ; Bede mentions a predecessor, Trumhere, but nothing is known about Trumhere's activities or who appointed him.

The college was founded by the Selwyn Memorial Committee in memory of the Rt Reverend George Selwyn ( 1809 – 1878 ), who rowed on the Cambridge crew in the first Varsity Boat Race in 1829, and went on to become the first Bishop of New Zealand ( 1841 – 1868 ), and subsequently the Bishop of Lichfield ( 1868 – 1878 ).

Hygeberht, already Bishop of Lichfield, was the new archdiocese's first and only archbishop.

York had long been held in common with Worcester, but during the period when Stigand was excommunicated, the see of York also claimed oversight over the sees of Lichfield and Dorchester.

Shortly afterwards Aethelric the Bishop of Selsey, Ethelwin the Bishop of Durham and Leofwin Bishop of Lichfield, who was married, were deposed at a council held at Windsor.

At the time, the coalfields at Walsall did not have canal access, and a public meeting was held at Lichfield on 18 August, to discuss an independent link from Walsall to Fradley Junction on the Trent and Mersey Canal, passing through Lichfield.

Lichfield () is a cathedral city, civil parish and district in Staffordshire, England.

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.

There have been scattered Romano-British finds in Lichfield, and it is possible that a burial discovered beneath the cathedral in 1751 was Romano-British.

The three spired Lichfield Cathedral | cathedral was built between 1195 and 1249.

The burial in the cathedral of the kings of Mercia, King Wulfhere in 674 and King Ceolred in 716, further increased the prestige of Lichfield.

Addison was born in Milston, Wiltshire, but soon after his birth his father, Lancelot Addison, was appointed Dean of Lichfield and the Addison family moved into the cathedral close.

Durham and Rochester cathedrals were refounded as Benedictine monasteries, the secular cathedral of Wells was moved to monastic Bath, while the secular cathedral of Lichfield was moved to Chester, and then to monastic Coventry.

Chad died on 2 March 672, and was buried at the Church of Saint Mary which later became part of the cathedral at Lichfield.

In having a cathedral but not being county town it can perhaps be compared to Lichfield or St Albans.

Lichfield Cathedral is situated in the cathedral city of Lichfield.

The Bishop of Lichfield said the early recording was not a " deliberate deceit " but would give " an air of unreality " to the Easter programme, while a BBC spokeswoman said it was " common practice " to film two shows at once due to the costs in setting up lighting rigs, especially in a large cathedral.

In 1075 a council was held in London, under the presidency of Archbishop Lanfranc, which, reciting the decrees of the council of Sardica held in 347 and that of Laodicea held in 360 on this matter, ordered the bishop of the south Saxons to remove his see from Selsey to Chichester ; the Wiltshire and Dorset bishop to remove his cathedra from Sherborne to Old Sarum, and the Mercian bishop, whose cathedral was then at Lichfield, to transfer it to Chester.

The Lord Brooke, who commanded for Parliament in Warwickshire and Staffordshire and was looked on by many as Essex's eventual successor, was killed in besieging Lichfield Cathedral on 2 March, and, though the cathedral soon capitulated, Gell and Brereton were severely handled in the indecisive Battle of Hopton Heath near Stafford on 19 March, and Prince Rupert, after an abortive raid on Bristol ( 7 March ), marched rapidly northward, storming Birmingham en route, and recaptured Lichfield Cathedral.

( Chad's relics were enshrined at Lichfield Cathedral until the Reformation after which they were kept in hiding until they were transferred to the new Catholic cathedral in Birmingham in 1841 ).

Darwin settled in 1756 as a physician at Nottingham, but met with little success and so moved the following year to Lichfield to try to establish a practice there.

He once wrote to Roger de Meyland, the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield " These things need your attention, but you have been absent so long that you seem not to care.

In 1958, his father died, so when his grandfather died in 1960, he succeeded as 5th Earl of Lichfield.

For many years it was assumed that Harvey himself had adopted the persona of Lichfield and written the reply to Nashe, but the style of the pamphlet is nothing like his and appears quite genuinely to be by Lichfield, and is generally so accepted today.

These lines from Birmingham to Barnt Green were operated by the Midland Railway and the line to Lichfield was operated by the London and North Western Railway, so there were no through services.

Whether this be so or not, Lee took part in preparing for the divorce proceedings against Catherine of Aragon, and in January 1534 he was elected Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, or Chester as the see was often called, taking at his consecration the new oath to the king as head of the English Church and not seeking confirmation from the pope.

The history of the ecclesiastical parish is traceable back to the 12th century, when " Stotfold " was named as one of the dozen or so prebends of the parochia of Lichfield Cathedral.