PENKRIDGE is supposed by Camden to have been the Roman Pennocrucium; its modern name seems derivable from the river Penk, on which it stands. The town, from its low situation, is liable to frequent inundations. It has no market-day, but two great cattle fairs are held here, on April 30, and first Monday in September. The Church was made collegiate by King John. Penkridge contains about 3,000 inhabitants. Quitting Penkridge, the villages of Thickerscote and Silkmoor appear in the distance; and shortly after leaving Acton Trussel to the E., and Levedale on the W., Dunstan Church, appears above the bank of the railway, on the E. The next object of interest is Stafford Castle, the tower of which is seen just before arriving at STAFFORD STATION. Distance to Birmingham, 29¼—Liverpool and Manchester, 68¼ miles. DISTANCES BY ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING PLACES:— _Places W. of Station_. _Places E. of Station_. Castlechurch 1 mile. Baswick or Berkswick 1½ mile. Coppenhall 2½ miles. Marston 3¼ miles. Houghton 4 — Tixall 4 — Gnosnal 7 — Ingestre 4 — NEWPORT 12 — Weston 4½ — Sandon 5 — Gayton 5½ — Stowe 6¾ — Colwich 6¾ — Milwich 7 — Fradswell 7½ — Hilderston 8 — RUGELEY 9 — Gratwich 11 — ABBOTS BROMLEY 11 — UTTOXETER 14 — LICHFIELD 17 — STAFFORD is a borough and market town; contains 8,512 inhabitants. This place, which is of great antiquity, was anciently called _Stadeford_, from the Saxon Stade, signifying a place on a river, and the _trajectus_, or ford, across the river Sow, on which it is pleasantly situated, about six miles from its confluence with the Trent.