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Staffordshire
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1459 Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
1944 World War II: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people.
2009 The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England.