UK books and maps

Stafford and Telford, Ironbridge (Landranger Maps) (OS Landranger Map) [Folded Map]

Perfect for day trips and short breaks, the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area and includes places of interest, tourist information, picnic areas and camp sites, plus Rights of Way information for England and Wales.

Price: £5.59

Publication: 5 May 2004

   

Stafford Street Atlas (A-Z Street Atlas) [Illustrated]

This atlas of Stafford, Rugeley, Stone and Uttoxeter contains 30 pages of coloured street mapping.

The Stafford coverage extends to include:

Great Bridgeford, Trinity Fields, Hopton, Weston, Hixton, Haughton, Great Haywood, Little Haywood, Acton Trussell, Walton-on-the-Hill and Brocton.
The Rugeley coverage includes:

Brereton, Armitage, Handsacre and Longdon.
There is separate coverage each of:

Stone, Uttoxeter, Penkridge, Eccleshall, Abbots Bromley and King's Bromley.
Postcode districts, one-way streets and safety camera locations with their maximum speed limit are featured on the mapping.

The index section of the atlas lists streets, selected flats, walkways and places of interest, place, area and station names, hospitals and hospices covered by the atlas.

Price: £4.50

Publication: 2 Mar 2011 [Paperback]

   

Stafford (Local Red Book S.)

Price: £2.75

Publication: July 2005

   

A History of the County of Stafford: Burton-upon-Trent Vol 9 (Victoria County History S.)

This volume covers the town of Burton-upon-Trent on the county's eastern boundary, along with its suburbs and satellite villages on either side of the river, including Stapenhill which was formerly in a separate parish in Derbyshire. Best known as a major centre for brewing beer from the earlier nineteenth century, Burton first came to prominence in the early eleventh century as the site of a Benedictine monastery which later promoted the cult of its own saint, the legendary St Modwen. Part of the monastic infirmary survives in the present Abbey inn, and a house called Sinai Park on the high ground to the west of the town was used by the monks as a rest home and hunting lodge. Alabaster carving developed as a specialist industry in the middle ages, and clothworking was important until the nineteenth century, with fulling and then cotton mills on the river Trent. The breweries were concentrated in the historic town centre near the river, and in the later nineteenth century a more respectable centre was created to the west around the imposing St Paul's church and the present town hall, both paid for by members of the Bass family. Other Anglican churches built by leading brewers in the town and its suburbs remain a major feature in the landscape. NIGEL TRINGHAM is VCH county editor for Staffordshire, and lecturer in history at the University of Keele.


Price: £65.28

Publication: March 4, 2004