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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Lichfield
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(29,000 in 1991) Cathedral town in Staffordshire, centre of a diocese ever since St Chad (d. 672) became the first bishop. The present cathedral with its three spires (known as the Ladies of the Vale) was built in the 13–14C and considerably restored in the 19C. The Lady Chapel is the most distinguished part of the interior, with nine great windows in the *Decorated style; seven of them contain 16C stained glass from the Cistercian abbey of Herkenrode in Belgium, brought here in the early 19C. The city's most famous association is with Samuel *Johnson, whose birthplace is now kept as a museum. It was from Lichfield that he and *Garrick set off together to walk to London in 1737.
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