Tamworth occurs as historic town & local government district in Staffordshire England, located Seventeen miles (Xxv kilometre) northward-nor'-east from either a city of Birmingham. A town gained its title from either a River Tame, which flows through a town, as does the River Anker. Within 2002 the town got a people of 74,581.

Tamworth is the residence of the historic Tamworth Castle, and has the minorly successful non-league football team by the title of Tamworth FC. These are likewise at home to the Snowdome, the number 1 indoor ski slope in the UK and Drayton Manor Theme Park.

A towns independent industries include distribution, engineering, wear, brick, tile & paper manufacture. It was likewise front yard to the Reliant car company.

History

Tamworth has existed since Saxon times, it was sacked by Danes in the 9th century. Defences in the form of the castle were constructed against Danish encroacher by Ethelfleda Queen of the kingdom of Mercia.

In the 11th century, a Norman castle was built on the places of the Saxon of these, which however is to this day.

A town grew chop-chop in a Eighteenth & Nineteenth centuries in the period of the Industrial Revolution, due largely to the surrounding coal mines. It as well became the hub of the canal network, with a Coventry Canal and the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal being built through the town. Late a railways arrived with a Midland Railway route from Derby to Birmingham, and late a London and North Western Railway, which provided direct trains to the capital.

A Victorian Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel served as a town's MP from 1830 until his death within 1850. It was within Tamworth that Robert Peel unveiled his Tamworth Manifesto in 1834 which created what is now a modern Conservative Party.

Tamworth has grown chop-chop in a post-war years due to overspill people from either the West Midlands. Its people has tripled since a 1940s.

Tamworth was historically split between Staffordshire and Warwickshire, with a county boundary heading through the town centre. Staffordshire was processed to include a entire borough within 1888.

A A5 £26,000,005 mile (Eight kilometer) dual-carriageway Fazeley, Two Gates & Wilnecote Bypass opened inside July 1995.

Culture

Tamworth has many blocks a virtually all popular existence 'Yates', 'Weatherspoons' & 'B79'. A virtually all popular club by using locals come 'Kube' & 'A Embassy' (a latter known by locals when "The Embo"). Recently an indie sub-culture has developed, although this is nearly twenty years fallowing a emergence of indie music as a distinct genre of popular music in the UK. Venues like 'Bonds' & 'A Robert Peel' stand began to play "alternative" music. Option club nights like a quarterly 'Slackers' & 'Skull Club' nights attract numbers of population when there are super couple of guide music venues. When is typically a out break by owning provincial English towns, trends within Tamworth popular culture lag behind people of London & more major cities.