found: Mountford, P.H. North Staffordshire landscape, 1951.
found: Ency. Brit., 1975:microp., v. 10, p. 631 (West Midlands; metropolitan county, England; formed in 1974 from ... parts of the counties of ... Staffordshire)
found: BL hdg.(Staffordshire (England))
found: Webster's new geog. dict., 1984:p. 1151 (Staffordshire or Stafford or Staffs; former county, W cen. England; administrative county, W cen. England, approx. equivalent to the former county)
found: Leigh, Edward. A speech of Colonell Edward Leigh, 1644, viewed online 11 November 2013:t.p. (Stafford-Shire)
found: Congreve, T. A scheme, or proposal, for making a navigable communication between the rivers of Trent and Severn, in the county of Stafford, 1753, viewed online 11 November 2013
found: GeoNames, 11 November 2013(Staffordshire (approved and short); County of Staffordshire (approved); variant: Stafford; country: United Kingdom; 52° 50ʹ 00ʺ N, 002° 00ʹ 00ʺ W; 52.833333 [N], -2 [W]; first-order administrative division)
found: Wikipedia, 4 November 2013:West Midlands (region) (the West Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes; the official region contains the large conurbation that includes Birmingham and Wolverhampton, but also covers the predominantly rural shire counties of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire) Regions of England (In England, the region is the highest tier of sub-national division used by the central government. Between 1994 and 2011, nine regions had officially devolved functions within UK Government. While they no longer fulfil this role, they continue to be used for some administrative purposes. They define areas (constituencies) for the purposes of elections to the European Parliament. Eurostat also uses them to demarcate first level Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) regions ("NUTS 1 regions") within the European Union. The regions generally followed the boundaries of "standard regions" established in the 1940s)
