A History of the County of Stafford
Authoritative and comprehensive history of the town of Tamworth and its environs.In the centre of a parish with several townships, Tamworth was important for the rulers of pre-Viking Mercia and became…
Specifikacia A History of the County of Stafford
Authoritative and comprehensive history of the town of Tamworth and its environs.In the centre of a parish with several townships, Tamworth was important for the rulers of pre-Viking Mercia and became a burh in 913 under thelfl d, lady of the Mercians, who may also have installed relics of St Edith in the church there. Although a castle was built after the Norman Conquest, its lords did not control the town, which became a corporation under Elizabeth I and is now the head of a district council. Throughout its history Tamworth has functioned as a market centre, with some cloth-working and paper-making, although cotton mills, opened by Robert Peel (the later Prime Minster's father), just outside the town in the 1790s were soon moved to a canal junction to the south in Fazeley, where tape-making survived (as also in the town) until the late twentieth century.Deposits of coal and
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