Fulford is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

about north east of

Stone In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter. It is categorized by the minerals included, its Chemical compound, chemical composition, and the way in which it is formed. Rocks ...

, in the

Stafford Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, England. It is located about south of Stoke-on-Trent, north of Wolverhampton, and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 71,673 at the 2021–2022 United Kingd ...

district, in the county of

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...

, England. The parish includes the settlements of Crossgate, Leadendale, Meir Heath, Mossgate, Rough Close, Saverley Green, Stallington, Townend and part of Blythe Bridge. 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

River Blythe The River Blythe flows through the English Midlands from central Warwickshire, through the Borough of Solihull and on to Coleshill in north Warwickshire. It runs along the Meriden Gap in the Midlands Plateau, is fed by the River Cole and ...

. Fulford became a conservation area in 1978. The parish is one of the largest in the Stafford district. The parish touches Forsbrook, Hilderstone, Stone Rural,

Barlaston Barlaston is a village and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, halfway between Stoke-on-Trent and Stone. At the 2011 census, the population was 2,858. History Historic buildings St John's Church The old parish church of Saint John is site ...

and Draycott in the Moors. 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 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...

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 A chapelry had a similar status to a Township (England), township, but was so named as it had a chapel of ease ...

, 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 Conservation areas in England Borough of Stafford