Stafford

Midlands market town

Stafford is a place name, most notably a market town in the English Midlands that serves as the county seat of Staffordshire.

As a surname, it derives from this location: Stafford is one of England's oldest Norman surnames.

The name also appears in American geography, including Stafford County in Virginia and towns in Texas and Connecticut.

history

Anglo-Saxon

Pre-Conquest British Germanic peoples

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place

England

Largest British country

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surname

family

Related people together

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Opposites
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England's capital city

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Staffordshire

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