Lichfield
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Lichfield is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. Lichfield is situated 18 miles south-east of Stafford, 9 miles north-east of Walsall, 8 miles north-west of Tamworth, 13 miles
Lichfield Cathedral June 2020
Johnsons Birthplace
Erasmus Darwin House
Lichfield Cathedral Exterior from NE, Staffordshire, UK Diliff
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer and polymath who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, an
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…34,738 and the population of the wider Lichfield District was 106,400. Notable for its three-spired medieval cathedral, Lichfield was the birthplace of Samuel Johnson, the compiler of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language. The city's recorded history began when Chad of Mercia arrived to establish…
Portrait c. 1772
Johnson's birthplace in Market Square, Lichfield
Entrance of Pembroke College, Oxford
Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, Johnson's wife