Lichfield

American  

[lich-feeld] / ˈlɪtʃˌfild /

noun

1. a town in SE Staffordshire, in central England, N of Birmingham: birthplace of Samuel Johnson.

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Lichfield British  

/ ˈlɪtʃˌfiːld /

noun

1. a city in central England, in SE Staffordshire: cathedral with three spires (13th-14th century); birthplace of Samuel Johnson, during whose lifetime the Lichfield Group (a literary circle) flourished. Pop: 28 435 (2001)

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Lichfield

In 787, with the pope’s permission, Offa established the archdiocese of Lichfield in Mercia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

And the King heard that unhappiness first hand from a heckler in Lichfield this week, who shouted: "How long have you known about Andrew and Epstein?"

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025

The aerobatic display team were headed to the National Memorial Arboretum, near Lichfield, Staffordshire, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, when the strike happened.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025

Sir Michael Fabricant was the Conservative MP for Lichfield in Staffordshire before he was defeated in last year's election.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2025

Ninety specimens of the Aldine press, together with other volumes chiefly printed at Venice by A. de Asula, were purchased at the sale of the library of Dr. Samuel Butler, Bishop of Lichfield.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by William Dunn Macray