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Tamworth Castle Gardens, Staffordshire

Tamworth Tamworth is a large market town on the border of Staffordshire with Warwickshire. The town centre, castle and church are in Staffordshire though the majority of the expanded townscape lies in Warwickshire, and the town is generally considered as belonging to the former. The border follows the old course of the River Tame through the castle grounds. This is a town of great history; Tamworth was once a capital of Mercia, and the hill on which its bold castle stands above the town centre has been a fortress at least since those days. The statue of Queen Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians beneath its ramparts recalls her liberation of the town from the Danes and its place as her capital thereafter. Tamworth takes its name from the River Tame, which flows through it, as does the River Anker. Its main sites are Tamworth Castle and the Moat House. (Read more)