{"id":75862,"date":"2018-01-05T23:30:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T16:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-lichfield-staffordshire-as-middle-england-as-you-can-get\/"},"modified":"2018-01-06T00:03:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T17:03:39","slug":"lets-move-to-lichfield-staffordshire-as-middle-england-as-you-can-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-lichfield-staffordshire-as-middle-england-as-you-can-get\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Lichfield, Staffordshire: as middle England as you can get"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA fabulous cathedral, Morris dancers, red-brick Georgian houses: this place is so English that even Samuel Johnson, the man who defined the nation, lived hereWhat\u2019s going for it? I doubt you\u2019ll find a more English place in the country. This is quite literally Middle England. I remember a wall plaque here when I was a kid that said the city was the farthest place from the sea. That\u2019s how middley it is, the very heart of our body politic. You\u2019re a long way from Bognor, let alone Brussels. Beyond the fabulous three-spired cathedral, it\u2019s all bunting, red-brick and half-timbered Fat Faces. Morris dancers have been sighted. Its ancient history is all Anglo-Saxons and Hygeberhts. Its rollcall of famous residents include such English stalwarts as Anna Seward, Erasmus Darwin, David Garrick and the man who defined the English, Samuel Johnson, who dubbed the locals \u201cthe most sober, decent people in England\u201d. Though it was the last place in the land to burn people at the stake, so be warned.The case against As you know, I love a cathedral city, though this one\u2019s a bit too far from the sea for me. Not very cosmopolitan, though they compensate with some splendid city festivals. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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