The Rotary Club of Stafford

Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire.

Stafford means 'ford' by a 'staithe' (landing place). The town's location was the only feasible place for a large army to cross the River Trent, and so was strategically important in the wider region. The original settlement was on an island in the middle of the marshes of the River Sow, a tributary of the Trent, and there is still a large area of marshland just north of the town.

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