Keele

Keele is a village and a municipality ( civil parish ) in the county of Staffordshire in England, United Kingdom.

Geographical Location and Transport

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 municipality of the Service Area Keele services is the M6 ​​motorway which runs from Birmingham coming further north to near the Scottish border. The district is also the University of Keele. At the municipality joins the north, the approximately 3.5 kilometers west location of Newcastle-under -Lyme village of Silverdale, a former mining area where coal and iron ore were promoted in the underground mining until the late 20th century.

History

The largest part of the village had formerly belonged to a manor, which had been in the possession of the Knights Order of Saint John. After the order 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 Good with the approximately one kilometer south-east of the village center mansion, Keele Hall remained until about the Second World War, also owned by descendants Sneyds, which contains an iron smelting plant and a coal mine owned in Silverdale and also manufactured brick products.

Around the year 1834 there were in the church Keele except the estate ten farmers, some crafts and a total of 1,130 inhabitants. Around 1860 Keele had about 1,200 inhabitants. During the census of 2001 3.664 inhabitants were recorded in Keele, however, most of whom were students, who stayed in student residences on the campus of the University of Keele. The Keele community has its own church; in 1790 the old church was replaced by a new building.