Land and Property in Lichfield: The Royal Oak, 1815
The Sutherland Papers include a number of deeds to properties in Lichfield, including ‘An Agreement made the Twenty eighth day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifteen ...
Letters from Michael Johnson to George Plaxton
Lichfield is famous for being the birthplace of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and has attracted visitors for this reason from as early as 1801. Johnson was born in Lichfield in 1709 and was the son of a man named ...
Lichfield and the Civil War
Lichfield was strategically important in the Civil War. A Royalist garrison at the start of the conflict, the Parliamentarians overthrew the City in 1643 for a short period before it was regained by the ...
Lichfield in the Early Nineteenth Century
Property in Lichfield was extremely important to the Leveson-Gower family. In addition to the political potential of owning property in the area, Lichfield formed a considerable part of the family's estates ...
Map of the City & Borough of Lichfield, 1838
The Sutherland Papers contain a wide variety of maps and surveys relating to Lichfield during the nineteenth century. The map featured above was produced in 1838 and shows the different parishes in the ...
The Hartshorne Inn, Lichfield
By the eighteenth century Lichfield had a large number of public houses, with eighty innkeepers being recorded trading in the town in 1732. The public houses served travellers and also provided accommodation ...
The Lichfield Races
During the eighteenth century, the nobility were attracted to Lichfield to attend the race meetings which were an important feature of the City's social calendar at this time. Lasting between two and ...