Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands (region) of England. It lies approximately north of Wolverhampton and south of Stoke-on-Trent, adjacent to the M6 motorway Junction 13 to Junction 14. The population of Stafford was given in the United Kingdom Census 2001 as 63,681, with that of the wider Stafford (borough) as 122,000, making Stafford the fourth largest settlement in the Ceremonial county, after Stoke on Trent, Tamworth and Newcastle under Lyme.
