an episcopal city, a county in itself, and a municipal and parliamentary borough of England, Staffordshire, is situated in a fertile valley, 119 miles N.W. from London. Extensive breweries and carpet manufactories afford employment to the majority of the population. The city has a free grammar school, said to have been founded by Edward VI.; several national schools; hospitals, &c. The other public buildings are a guildhall, a jail, a theatre, a market-house, a house of correction, the churches of St Mary, St Chad, St Michael, and the cathedral, a most noble structure, partly of early English, and partly of later architecture, and surmounted by three beautiful spires. Lichfield returns two members to parliament, and is governed by a mayor, six aldermen, and eighteen councillors. To Dr Samuel Johnson, who was a native of the town, a monument has been erected in the cathedral. The monument of two children is one of the finest of Sir F. Chantrey's works.

Pop. (1851) 7012. See Harwood's Lichfield.