Lichfield

Lichfield, cathedral city in Staffordshire, central England. The city, formed in 1974, includes the market town of Lichfield (incorporated 1548) and the surrounding, largely agricultural, area; there is also some light industry. Lichfield is famous for its three-spired 13th-century sandstone cathedral, which contains a Saxon copy of the Gospels as well as a medieval illustrated copy of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Lichfield Grammar School (1495) is where the essayist Joseph Addison, the writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, and the actor David Garrick all attended. Population 93,237 (2001).