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Malthouse Press

publishing Staffordshire's History

Grange Cottage
Malthouse Lane
Barlaston
Staffordshire
ST12 9AQ
(01782) 372067
Timcockin@yahoo.com

Staffordshire's great secondary source tool

ONLY £45.00 includes UK postage

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Staffordshire's County Wall Map showing all its parishes for family historians

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Staffordshire Moorlands

Staffordshire's book of tip bits, claims, firsts, lasts, heros & villians, region by region

IN PROGRESS due out in 2007

WHAT IS THE STAFFORDSHIRE ENCYCLOPEDIA?

It was first published in 2000 in hardback at £80.00. It has been available from 2006 in paperback. Text only pp695. 12,00 Stafforshire places in over a million words. ISBN 0-9539018-0-7

What others have said about the Encyclopaedia

"The information provided in the gazetteer is formidable, and it is hard to detect any historical event or topographical feature that has not been included."

David Horovitz,
Staffordshire History Journal,
Autumn 2001

"Very many congratulations on the launch of your new book. After years of collecting detailed information on the History of Staffordshire, plus the many illustrations, you have written a masterpiece which I am very sure you are very proud of."

Anna Bullock,
Oulton Cross,
Stone, 2000

"Thank you for telling me about your forthcoming book THE STAFFORDSHIRE ENCYCLOPEDIA, which sounds most interesting"

Phil Drabble,
Goat Lodge,
Abbots Bromley
2000

"Thank you for delivering my copy of The Staffordshire Encyclopedia. since it arrived I have spent some interesting hours browsing through the entries and I congratulate you on the production of this work which was well worth waiting for."

John P Lester,
Walsall,
2000

"A reviewer could go on indefinetely listing the trasures that await the researcher and the idle or curious browser... this reviewer will go as far to assert that this wonderful product of youthful enthusiasm and pertinacity is bound to be an inexhaustible sounrce of interest and entertainment for generations of Staffordophiles."

Charles JL Elwell,
OBE in The Blackcountryman Journal,
2001

"I was most impressed with your publication The Staffordshire Encyclopedia which I came across in Wolverhampton Archives."

Mike Shaw
Black Country Archaeologist
2001

"I have recently read your most interesting book. I congratulate you on such a great undertaking. It is evidently the culmination of many year's work"

Mrs EA Ford,
Draycott-in-the-Clay
2002

"I recently visited the William Salt Library in Stafford to do a little research into family history. Whilst there, I was introducted by one of the librarians to your fascinating book "The Staffordshire Encyclopedia". I ha dnot come across this before."

Peter C Bennett,
Norbury
2004

WHAT IS THE STAFFORDSHIRE WALL MAP?

It is a new wall map of Staffordshire (1400mm x 1000mm) based entirely on the Ordnance Survey First Edition Series 1875-86, 6 inches to 1 mile. It shows every parish and a famous person from each one. Illustrated. Available from 2006. Limited edition of 500 copies. Tubed Packaged, fold to suit at home.

ISBN 0-9539018-2-3

What others have said about the County Wall Map

"I was delighted to have recieved a copy of your Staffordshire Parish Map last week. In accordance with your wishes I am pleased to tell you that the map has been mounted by our conservators and is now on display in the Reading Room."
It is located on the wall near our Learning and Resource Centre. I hope that you will take a look at it next time you visit us. Feedback received from the staff so far has been very positive. I am sure it will be a very useful resource for visitors to the Staffordshire Record Office.
Yours sincerely,

Joanna Terry,
Assistant County Archvist,
2006

WHAT IS STAFFORDSHIRE CLAIMS?

This new series of books for each region of Staffordshire is a general reader listing the best facts about Staffordshire. It reaplces Old Parish Boundaires of Staffordshire which started with Volume 1 covering the Potteries and NW Staffordshire (2005)
Number 2 - but the first in this revamped series - will cover all Staffordshire Moorland parishes and will include Abbots Bromley, Alstonefield, Alton, Biddulph, Blithfield, Blore, Bramshall, Caverswall, Cheadle, Checkly, Cheddleton, Dilhorne, Draycott, Gratwich, Grindon, Horton, Kingstone, Leek, Leigh, Mayfield, Norton-in-the-Moors, Rocester, Sheen, Uttoxeter, Waterfall, Wetton.
Paperback. 2007. The estimated price is £4.50