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History :
Historically, Staffordshire was divided into the five hundreds of
Cuttlestone, Offlow, Pirehill, Seisdon, and Totmonslow.
Lichfield Cathedral
The historic boundaries of Staffordshire cover much of what is now the
metropolitan county of West Midlands. An administrative county of
Staffordshire was set up in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888
covering the county except the county boroughs of Wolverhampton,
Walsall, and West Bromwich in the south (the area known as the Black
Country), and Hanley in the north. The Act also saw the towns of
Tamworth (partly in Warwickshire) and Burton upon Trent (partly in
Derbyshire) united entirely in Staffordshire.
In 1553 Queen Mary made Lichfield a county separate from the rest of
Staffordshire. It remained so until 1888. ( Loft conversion cost price
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Handsworth and Perry Barr became part of the county borough of
Birmingham in the early 20th century, and thus associated with
Warwickshire. Burton, in the east of the county, became a county
borough in 1901, and was followed by Smethwick, another Black Country
town in 1907. In 1910 the six towns of the Staffordshire Potteries,
including Hanley, became the single county borough of Stoke-on-Trent.
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A major reorganisation in the Black Country in 1966, under the
recommendation of the Local Government Commission for England led to
the creation of an area of contiguous county boroughs. The County
Borough of Warley was formed by the merger of the county borough of
Smethwick and municipal borough of Rowley Regis with the Worcestershire
borough of Oldbury : the resulting county borough was associated with
Worcestershire. Meanwhile, the county borough of Dudley, historically a
detached part of Worcestershire, expanded and became associated with
Staffordshire instead. This reorganisation led to the administrative
county of Staffordshire having a thin protusion passing between the
county boroughs (to the east) and Shropshire, to the west, to form a
short border with Worcestershire.
Under the Local Government Act 1972, on April 1, 1974 the county
boroughs of the Black Country and the Staffordshire urban district of
Aldridge-Brownhills became, along with Birmingham, Solihull, and
Coventry and other districts, a new metropolitan county of West
Midlands. County boroughs were abolished, with Stoke becoming a
non-metropolitan district in Staffordshire, and Burton forming an
unparished area in the district of East Staffordshire. On April 1,
1997, under a recommendation of the Banham Commission, Stoke-on-Trent
became a unitary authority independent of Staffordshire once more.