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Pevsner completed his survey of England's buildings with Staffordshire. A county of striking
contrasts, it includes the industrial towns that make up Stoke-on-Trent and much of the Black
Country, but also the cathedral city of Lichfield, and the wild country of the Peak District and
Cannock Chase. Staffordshire's best timber-framed houses rival those of Cheshire, while the
local stone gives shape to country houses such as Shugborough, with its celebrated garden
building, and to two neo-Gothic masterpiece churches, Pugin's Cheadle and Bodley's Hoar
Cross. Modern buildings include the playful and inventive 1930s pavilions of Dudley Zoo.
