Lichfield

Birthplace of Samuel Johnson — who compiled the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language — and home to a three-spired medieval cathedral, Lichfield is a heritage-dense cathedral city in Staffordshire with a walkable centre of Georgian streets and well over two hundred listed buildings. The city's intellectual peak came in the 18th century, when Johnson, David Garrick, Erasmus Darwin, and Anna Seward all lived here, prompting Johnson's description of it as "a city of philosophers."

• Population34,738
• Nearest water0.5 km
• Nearest mountain7.0 km
• UNESCO within 50 km2