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The Josiah Wedgwood statue outside the North Stafford Hotel
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The year 2016 marked the millennium of the first mention of Staffordshire – a name which derives from the old English for ‘ford by the landing place’ in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle – and the county celebrated with the inaugural Staffordshire Day.