Fulford is a village and

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about north east of

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, in the

Stafford Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It lies about north of Wolverhampton, south of Stoke-on-Trent and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 70,145 in t ...

district, in the county of

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

, England. The parish includes the settlements of Crossgate, Leadendale,

Meir Heath Meir Heath is a village just to the south of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire situated on a hilltop between Meir and Rough Close, miles from Barlaston and only 5 miles from Stone. The population as taken at the 2011 census can be found under the ...

, Mossgate, Rough Close, Saverley Green, Stallington, Townend and part of

Blythe Bridge Blythe Bridge is a village in Staffordshire, England, south-east of Stoke-on-Trent. Etymology Blythe Bridge is so called as it is built around the site of a bridge over the River Blithe (spelt differently from the name of the village itself), a ...

. In 2011 the built-up area had a population of 650 and the parish had 5,931. The village is on one of the tributaries of the

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. The parish is one of the largest in the Stafford district. The parish touches

Forsbrook Forsbrook is a village in Staffordshire, around three miles southwest of Cheadle, Staffordshire, Cheadle and situated on the edge of the Staffordshire Moorlands. It is an old village and is mentioned in the Domesday Book, with the rather unflatte ...

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Barlaston Barlaston is a village and civil parish in the Stafford (borough), borough of Stafford in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is roughly halfway between the city of Stoke-on-Trent and the small town of Stone, Staffordshire, Stone. According ...

and

Draycott in the Moors Draycott in the Moors is a village between Stoke on Trent and Uttoxeter near the River Blythe. It is two and a half miles from Cheadle, Staffordshire, Cheadle and is near Blythe Bridge railway station, on the North Staffordshire Railway.

. Fulford is the highest point in the Stafford district and varies between and above sea level.

Features

Fulford has a church dedicated to St Nicholas, which is Grade II listed and was built in the Gothic style in 1825 by C. H. Winks, a primary school and village hall on Fulford Road and a pub called the Shoulder of Mutton, on Meadow Lane. There are 9 listed buildings in Fulford, all

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History

The name "Fulford" means "the dirty ford". Fulford was recorded in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

as ''Fuleford''. The village is one of the possible sources of the surname Fulford.

Civil parish

Formerly a

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and

chapelry A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century. Status It had a similar status to a township but was so named as it had a chapel of ease (chapel) which was the communi ...

, Fulford became a civil parish on 1 April 1897. The parish was created from part of Stone Rural parish, which itself had been split from Stone parish in 1894.

References

External links

Village website

Fulford Parish Council
{{authority control Villages in Staffordshire Civil parishes in Staffordshire Borough of Stafford