Tamworth, an old English town on the Stafford and Warwickshire border, 7 m. SE. of Lichfield; its history goes back to the time of the Danes, by whom it was destroyed in 911; an old castle, and the church of St. Edith, are interesting buildings; has prosperous manufactures of elastic, paper, &c.; has a bronze statue of Sir Robert Peel, who represented the borough in Parliament.
Population (circa 1900) given as 7,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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