  uttoxeter ( or sometimes locally  ) is a market town in staffordshire, england. in 2001, the population was 12,023. uttoxeter lies close to the river dove in east staffordshire, near the cities of stoke-on-trent, derby and lichfield. ==history== uttoxeter's name has had 79 spellings since it was mentioned in the domesday book as "wotocheshede":plea rolls of the court of common pleas; national archives; cp 40/555, in 1399; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/h4/cp40no555/bcp40no555dorses/img_0036.htm; ; sixth entry. where the plaintiff john passemor comes from, appearing as  uttoksather it probably came from anglo-saxon wuttuceshÇ£ddre = "wuttuc's homestead on the heath". some historians point to pre-roman settlement here and bronze age axes have been discovered in the town (now in display in the potteries museum in stoke-on-trent). it is possible that uttoxeter had some form of roman activity due to its strategic position on the river dove and closeness to the large garrison forts at rocester between 69 and 400 ad, and recently discovered fort at stramshall, though little corroborating archaeology has been found. uttoxeter saw the last major royalist surrender of the english civil war, on 25 august 1648, when james hamilton, 1st duke of hamilton surrendered to parliamentarian general john lambert. perhaps the most famous event to have occurred in uttoxeter is the penance of samuel johnson. johnson's father ran a bookstall on uttoxeter market, and young samuel once refused to help out on the stall. when johnson was older, he stood in the rain (without a hat) as a penance for his failure to assist his father. this event is commemorated with the johnson memorial, which sta
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