Oatcakes are a savory variety of pancake particularly associated with Staffordshire.

Harriseahead is a village in the county of Staffordshire, England, just north of Stoke on Trent and about 2 miles south-west of Biddulph and very close to the border with Cheshire.

The Staffordshire Bull Terrier is a medium-sized, stocky, and very muscular dog, with a similar appearance to the American Staffordshire terrier and American pit bull terrier.

Staffordshire Bull Terrier puppies are very easy to house train.

George's father was William Anson of Shugborough in Staffordshire and his mother was Isabella Carrier, who was the sister-in-law of Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, the Lord Chancellor, a relationship that proved very useful to the future admiral.

Now roe can be found in most of rural England except for the very far south western tip of Cornwall, south east Kent and the greater part of Staffordshire and Cheshire although the expansion is continuing to the extent that before the end of this century anywhere in the UK mainland that is suitable for roe may have a population.

Immediately before the junction is a very shallow stop lock built to prevent the loss of water to the new rival canal from the pre-existing Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.

Sedgley Beacon Hill provides views across The Black Country, Cannock Chase and Birmingham to the east, and to the Wrekin, Clee Hills and Malvern Hills to the west, and on very clear days it is possible to see the hills of North Staffordshire and Derbyshire, as well as the mountains of both North and South Wales.

Due to being located on the South Staffordshire Coalfield, Darlaston became industrialised very early in its history.

Little Aston is located in the very south of Staffordshire, contiguous with Sutton Coldfield in Birmingham, and is thus part of the West Midlands Conurbation.

Barnes was unusual in that, despite a very long playing career, he spent little more than two seasons in first-class cricket, preferring instead to play league cricket and represent his native county club Staffordshire in the Minor Counties Championship.

* No Man's Heath ( four counties ), a village in Warwickshire, very close to Leicestershire, Staffordshire, and Derbyshire

Wombourne ( also spelt Wombourn ) is a very large village ( sometimes claimed to be the largest village in England ) and civil parish located in the district of South Staffordshire, in the county of Staffordshire, 4 miles ( 6 km ) south-west of Wolverhampton.

Boscobel is a very small civil parish in the east of Shropshire, England, on the border with Staffordshire.

The Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver ( estimated 700 CE ) discovered in a field in Staffordshire, England, on 5 July 2009 contains numerous examples of very fine filigree described by archaeologist Kevin Leahy as " incredible ".

His song ' Tim McGuire ' ( who loved to play with fire ), written during this period, became very popular and was the subject of a complaint from the Chairman of Staffordshire Fire Brigades when it was played a number of times on BBC radio.

* On 23 April 1910, Roose, by then a very famous former Stoke player, guested – along with Herbert Chapman – for Port Vale in a match against Stoke Reserves that would decide the winner of the North Staffordshire and District League.

* 1773 " Experiments on different kinds of Marle found in Staffordshire " Phil Trans.

Cooper alone of the national Chartist leadership was convicted ( at a different trial ), having been involved in events leading up to the strikes in north Staffordshire, where violence was especially serious.

The town is surrounded by many different small villages, ranging from the larger settlements of Edgmond and Lilleshall to smaller hamlets all of which are joined to the town or separated only by a small distance ; most of these settlements are seen as parts of the town's catchment zone and as Newport is on the Shropshire / Staffordshire border many lie in South Staffordshire but their postal address is still Newport, these are as follows:

Humphrey Littleton, who had escaped from the authorities at Hagley, got as far as Prestwood in Staffordshire before he was captured.

The largest of these were the Primitive Methodist church, deriving from a revival at Mow Cop in Staffordshire, the Bible Christians and the Methodist New Connexion.

In Staffordshire, a breeding colony has established itself after breaking loose from a private zoo in Leek, Staffordshire in the 1930s.

The club was founded as West Bromwich Strollers in 1878 by workers from George Salter's Spring Works in West Bromwich, then in Staffordshire but now part of the West Midlands administrative county.

Category: Musicians from Staffordshire

The Kidderminster & District League has operated since 1984 and draws teams from Worcestershire and South Staffordshire.

She died at Tamworth, Staffordshire in 918, and was buried at St Peter's Church ( now St Oswald's priory ) in Gloucester, a city she had reconstructed from Roman ruins, and laid out the core street plan, which is still in existence today.

He was born in Gloucestershire, at Pauntley in the Forest of Dean, although his family originated from Kinver in Staffordshire, England, where his grandfather Sir William de Whittington was a knight at arms.

About 450 British soldiers from 2nd Battalion, The Scots Guards and Staffordshire Regiment ( elements of the 24th Infantry Brigade ) responded, surrounded the First Battalion barracks at Jinja, seized the armory, and quelled the mutiny.

In the 90's, the American Bully was created from the American Staffordshire Terrier and the American Pit Bull Terrier.

Since January 1, 1972, it was renamed to " American Staffordshire Terrier " to make a separate breed from the lighter Staffordshire Bull Terrier of England.

Thomas Fairfax emerged for a moment from his retirement to organize the Yorkshire levies, and the best of these as well as of the Lancashire, Cheshire and Staffordshire militias were directed upon Warrington, which Harrison reached on 15 August, a few hours in front of Charles's advanced guard.

Burton United Football Club was an English football club from Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire that played in The Football League between 1901 and 1907, before folding in 1910.

A few Savery engines were tried in mines, an unsuccessful attempt being made to use one to clear water from a pool called Broad Waters in Wednesbury ( then in Staffordshire ) and nearby coal mines.

Charlotte Jean Scott Atkins ( born 24 September 1950 ) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Staffordshire Moorlands from 1997 until 2010.

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.

A major focus of his career was the remodelling of older country houses, his first major commission was the transformation of Henry Holland's Trentham Hall, Staffordshire ( 1834 – 40 ) it was remodelled in the Italianate style with a large tower ( a feature Barry often included in his country houses ), Barry also designed the Italianate gardens, with parterres and fountains, largely demolished in 1912, only a small portion of the house consisting of the porte-cochère, with a curving corridor and the stables are still standing, although the gardens are undergoing a restoration, additionally the belvedere from the top of the tower survives as a folly at Sandon Hall.

Joe Jackson ( born David Ian Jackson, 11 August 1954, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire ) is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001.

Continuing south via Coven, Staffordshire, it begins to bear away from the Penk, which has its source at Perton, well to the west of the canal.

Alton Towers is situated in the Staffordshire Moorlands district and therefore employs a large number of people from Leek and the surrounding area.

The club played in a variety of local leagues, including the Staffordshire County League, Manchester League, Mid-Cheshire League and Cheshire County League, before becoming founder members of the North West Counties Football League in 1982 and from there progressing to the Northern Premier League in 1987.

He became seriously ill and returned to his home at Turnhurst, Staffordshire, where Erasmus Darwin attended him and discovered that he was suffering from diabetes.

Category: People from Leek, Staffordshire