Stafford is capital city of Staffordshire, county, central England; Stafford is the administrative center. The county lies over the upper reaches of the Trent River and possesses a gently rolling terrain other than in the north, where the southern tip of Peak District National Park incorporates an area of upland moors. Agriculture, particularly dairy farming, predominates. Staffordshire includes the Potteries District, the area around Stoke-on-Trent that's been famous for the manufacturing of porcelain, especially its lead-glazed earthenware figures-known as the Staffordshire figures-since the 18th century. Coal is mined in the southern section. In Anglo-Saxon times the area was part of the kingdom of Mercia. The area was invaded by the Danes at the end of the 9th century, and it was the landscape of much fighting for the next two centuries.
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