Tamworth Staffordshire was the principal centre of royal power of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia during the 8th and 9th centuries.
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30 Facts About Tamworth Staffordshire
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Tamworth Staffordshire was near the Roman road, Watling Street and a few miles from the Roman town of Letocetum.
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Stephen Pollington states that the settlers that reached Tamworth Staffordshire were Angles, who left their homelands after rising sea levels flooded much of the land.
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Tamworth Staffordshire was likely a stopping place on the royal circuit, becoming a royal vill from the seventh century, with an early minster church and river crossing.
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Between 790 and 850 Tamworth Staffordshire was the main location for the signature of Mercian royal charters.
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Tamworth Staffordshire was then a frontier town between Viking ruled east Mercia and Anglo-Saxon ruled west Mercia until 913, when Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, made Tamworth Staffordshire her capital, and re-fortified the town against Viking attacks.
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In 1215 King John threatened to have Tamworth Staffordshire Castle destroyed, in revenge for the 3rd Baron Marmion's support for the baronial revolt against the King.
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In 1345 Tamworth Staffordshire suffered a disastrous fire, and much of the town burned.
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Tamworth Staffordshire continued to grow and remained one of the most populous towns in the Midlands by 1670, when the combined hearth tax returns from Warwickshire and Birmingham list a total of some 320 households.
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In 1790 the Coventry Canal was completed through Tamworth Staffordshire, linking Tamworth Staffordshire to the growing national canal network, a junction was made between this and the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal.
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Tamworth Staffordshire became the town's Member of Parliament in 1790, and remained so until 1820.
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Tamworth Staffordshire used his parliamentary influence to improve the working conditions in factories.
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Tamworth Staffordshire started a free library, a working men's club, a school and started the Co-operative society in the town in 1885 acting as guarantor.
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Tamworth Staffordshire grew rapidly in the postwar years as it soaked up overspill from the West Midlands conurbation to the southwest.
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Tamworth Staffordshire has six designated Local Nature Reserves, Hodge Lane, Kettlebrook, Tameside, Dosthill Park, Warwickshire Moor and Broadmeadow, which became the newest nature reserve in April 2013.
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Tamworth Staffordshire is located at the confluence of the rivers Tame and Anker, which meet just south of the town centre.
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Tamworth Staffordshire was in 2013 the most overweight town in the UK with a 30.
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Tamworth Staffordshire Borough is administered by a Council which has been local Conservative Party-led since 2004 and was Labour Party-led from 1990 to 2004.
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On Staffordshire county council, Tamworth has six divisions, all of which are held by the Conservatives.
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Tamworth Staffordshire is a non-constituent member of the West Midlands Combined Authority.
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Tamworth Staffordshire has a minor hospital called Sir Robert Peel Hospital which is located in Mile Oak.
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Parish church of Tamworth Staffordshire is the Church of St Editha in the town centre, which is one of the towns prominent and oldest landmarks being a grade I listed building.
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Tamworth Staffordshire is in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham; the main Roman Catholic church is St John the Baptist on St John Street in the town centre, the other Roman Catholic church is Sacred Heart Church in Glascote.
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Tamworth Staffordshire was a research officer for the British Admiralty during World War II before becoming in 1943 a member of the British mission to the U S to participate in the Manhattan Project which developed the atomic bomb.
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Tamworth Staffordshire Station is a high- and low-level station and serves as an interchange between the West Coast Mainline and the Cross Country Route.
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One of the more notable personalities to come from Tamworth Staffordshire is former Manchester City goalkeeper Tony Coton, who made a number of appearances over the years.
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In 1868 The Tamworth Staffordshire Herald was launched by Daniel Addison, with its original premises in Silver Street.
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The Tamworth Staffordshire Herald was crowned 'Newspaper of the Year' at the Midland Media Awards in both 2016 and 2017.
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Online news for Tamworth Staffordshire is provided by Tamworth Staffordshire Informed, an independently owned news service which circulates news articles via its website and various social media platforms.
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Tamworth Staffordshire appears in the 2020 video game Assassin's Creed Valhalla as a Saxon fortress that the player can conquer.
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