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Blithbury
The Bull and Spectacles
BlithburyLocation within Staffordshire
OS grid reference	SK083201
Civil parish	Mavesyn Ridware
District	Lichfield
Shire county	Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	RUGELEY
Postcode district	WS15
Dialling code	01889
Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Lichfield
List of places UK England Staffordshire 52°46′40″N 1°52′40″W / 52.777778°N 1.877778°W / 52.777778; -1.877778

Blithbury is a small village in Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England. Part of the civil parish of Mavesyn Ridware, it lies near the River Blithe, about 3 miles (5 km) north of Handsacre, 3 miles north-east of Rugeley, and 3 miles south of Abbots Bromley.

There used to be a public house on the corner of Blithbury Road and Uttoxeter Road which was called The Bull and Spectacles, but it has now closed. In the 19th century, the pub had the more common name of Bull's Head.

In the first half of the 12th century, religious houses for monks and nuns were founded at Blithbury. Within a few decades, only the nuns are mentioned. The order was associated with the nuns of Black Ladies Priory, Brewood. It was eventually absorbed by them, so there is no mention of the nuns of Blithbury after the early 14th century.

According to Douglas Adams' 1983 humorous dictionary "The Meaning of Liff", a Blithbury is "A look someone gives you by which you become aware that they're much too drunk to have understood anything you've said to them in the last twenty minutes".

References

1. "Bull & Spectacles, Blithbury". 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
2. ^ "Blithbury". Ridware History Society. 2005. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
3. ^ "Houses of Benedictine nuns – the priory of Blithbury". 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2009 – via British History Online.

External links

[REDACTED] Media related to Blithbury at Wikimedia Commons

v t e Monasteries in Staffordshire
Augustinian	Baswich Priory Calwich Priory Ranton Priory Rocester Abbey Stone Priory Priory of St. Thomas near Stafford Trentham Priory
Benedictine	Blithbury Priory Brewood Priory (Black Ladies) Burton Abbey Canwell Priory Colwich Abbey Farewell Priory Hanbury Nunnery Lapley Priory Little Haywood Abbey Oulton Abbey Stone Priory Tutbury Priory
Cistercian	Cotton Abbey Croxden Abbey Dieulacres Abbey Hulton Abbey Radmore Abbey
Cluniac	Dudley Priory
Dominican	Hawkesyard Priory Newcastle-under-Lyme Blackfriars
Franciscan	Lichfield Greyfriars Stafford Greyfriars
Knights Templar	Keele Preceptory

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