Keele (village)
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 0 ′ N , 2 ° 17 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 3667 | ||
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| Post town | Newcastle-under-Lyme | ||
| ZIP code section | ST5 | ||
| prefix | 01782 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | West Midlands | ||
| Shire county | Staffordshire | ||
| District | Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme | ||
| British Parliament | Newcastle-under-Lyme | ||
Keele is a village and civil parish in the county of Staffordshire in England , United Kingdom .
Geographical location and transport links
Keele is located in the north of Staffordshire, in the so-called Midlands , about five kilometers west of the city of Newcastle-under-Lyme . On the boundaries of the community, the Service Area motorway is Keele services of the M6 motorway , of Birmingham coming north to the vicinity of the Scottish continues border. The University of Keele is also located in the district . The village of Silverdale , about 3.5 kilometers west of Newcastle-under-Lyme, joins the municipality in the north , a former mining area where coal and iron ore were mined underground until the end of the 20th century.
history
Most of the village used to belong to a manor owned by the Order of Saint John . After the order was dissolved, the estate came to the British Crown and was then sold in 1544 by the Court of Augmentation to Sir William Sneyd , whose ancestors came from Cheshire . The estate with the manor house Keele Hall , located about one kilometer southeast of the village center, remained in the possession of the descendants of Sneyds until after the Second World War , who owned an ironworks and a coal mine in Silverdale and also manufactured brickwork products.
Around 1834 there were ten farmers, a few handicraft businesses and a total of 1,130 residents in the municipality of Keele, in addition to the estate. By 1860, Keele had around 1,200 residents. The 2001 census recorded 3,664 residents in Keele, most of whom were students staying in the student residences on the Keele University campus. The Keele parish has its own church; in 1790 the old church was replaced by a new building.
literature
- JM Kolbert: The Sneyds Squires of Keele . University of Keele, 1976, ISBN 9780900770616 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Deakin: Collieries in the North Staffordshire Coalfield . Landmark Publications, England, 2004, ISBN 1 84306 138 4 .
- ↑ JM Kolbert The Sneyds & Keele Hall . University of Keele, 1967.
- ^ A b William White: History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Staffordshire . Sheffield 1834, pp. 643-644.
- ^ George Grifith: The free schools and endowments of Staffordshire, and their fulfillment . London 1860, pp. 502-503.