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Stafford

Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire in the English Midlands. Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, fortified it as a burh in 913 during her campaigns against the Danes, and it became the centre of the shire created around it in the 10th century. After the Norman Conquest a castle was built nearby.

Stafford
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Lordship of Brecknock

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Stafford. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/stafford
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