page_title: Lichfield
section_title: Notable Lichfeldians
hierarchical_section_title: Lichfield / Notable Lichfeldians
caption_attribution_description: English: Henry Salt (14 June 1780 – 30 October 1827) English artist, traveller, diplomat, and egyptologist
context_page_description: Lichfield is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. Lichfield is situated roughly 16 mi north of Birmingham, 8.1 miles from Rugeley, 9 miles from Walsall, 7.9 miles from Tamworth and 13 miles from Burton Upon Trent. At the time of the 2011 Census the population was estimated at 32,219 and the wider Lichfield District at 100,700.
  Notable for its three-spired medieval cathedral, Lichfield was the birthplace of Samuel Johnson, the writer of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language. The city's recorded history began when Chad of Mercia arrived to establish his Bishopric in 669 AD and the settlement grew as the ecclesiastical centre of Mercia. In 2009, the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork, was found 5.9 km south-west of Lichfield.
  The development of the city was consolidated in the 12th century under Roger de Clinton, who fortified the Cathedral Close and also laid out the town with the ladder-shaped street pattern that survives to this day. Lichfield's heyday was in the 18th century, when it developed into a thriving coaching city.
context_section_description: Ceatta of Lichfield, an obscure 11th century Anglo Saxon saint of the Catholic Church.
caption: Henry Salt
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