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A huge expanse of recreational parkland.
Beacon Park is a green flag public park in the centre of the city of Lichfield, Staffordshire, in England. The park was created in 1859 when the Museum Gardens were laid out adjacent to the newly built Free Museum and Library. The park has since been extended in stages and now forms 69 acres (28 ha) of open parkland in the city centre. The park is in the northwest of the city centre and to the west of the Cathedral Close across the road from the Garden of Remembrance. In 2024, the park was voted as one of the best 10 green flag parks in the United Kingdom.
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Museum in the former home of physician and poet Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of naturalist Charles Darwin.
The world's only Medieval cathedral with three spires, dates back to the 7th century.
Inventor of the Dictionary and amongst England's best known literary figures. Dr Johnson was an essayist, poet, biographer, lexicographer and a critic of English Literature. Also considered to be a great wit and prose stylist, he was well known for his aphorisms. The single most quoted English writer after Shakespeare.
Housing a Lichfield museum in central Lichfield market square.
More than 350 memorials to various regiments, squadrons, ships, services, and conflicts of the British and Allied forces, all set in 150 acres of slowly maturing woodland. Everyone who visits will have a memorial which speaks to them most strongly, but two of the most moving are Shot at Dawn, commemorating all British and Empire soldiers executed for desertion in World War I, and the disturbingly massive Armed Forces Memorial, which records the names of the more than 17,000 British service personnel killed on duty since the end of World War II. Quieter corners of the centre allow for contemplation surrounded by nature. As the site is vast, there is a land train which operates 50-minute tours of the site. Dogs welcome.