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Keele railway station
Keele railway station served both the villages of Keele and Madeley Heath, in Staffordshire, England, between 1870 and 1967.
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Leycett
Leycett is a village in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. It was built in the late 1860s to accommodate miners and their families at the nearby collieries and coal mines. Population details as taken at the 2011 census can be found under Madeley with the name Leycett meaning 'the clearing in the woods'.
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Leycett railway station
Leycett railway station is a disused railway station in Staffordshire, England.
The station was situated on the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) Audley branch line. The Audley line ran from a junction on the Stoke to Crewe line near Alsager to a junction between Keele and Madeley Road on the Stoke to Market Drayton Line Like many of the lines opened by the NSR the Audley line was built primarily to carry mineral traffic. The line opened in 1870 but passenger services were not introduced until 1880, partially a wait caused by the need to build a junction from the Audley line that would allow trains to run directly towards Stoke rather than having to reverse at the junction which was how the line was originally constructed.
The decision to introduce passenger trains over the line led to the opening of a station to serve the mining village of Leycett in June 1880. By 1923 the station was served six services a day in each direction from Stoke on Trent, three terminating at Halmerend and the others continuing to Harecastle.
The rise in local bus services led to a decline in the revenue raised from passengers and in 1931 the London, Midland and Scottish Railway withdrew all passenger services on the Audley line from 27 April 1931.
Freight traffic too had been diminished by the economic depression towards the end of the 1920s and many of the local collieries closed as they became worked out or uneconomic to maintain and the line was reduced to a single line in 1933 although freight services continued until complete closure of the line between Audley and Keele in June 1962.
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Hollywood Music Festival
The Hollywood Music Festival was held at Leycett in an area called Hollywood on the grounds of Ted Askey's Lower (pig) Farm at Finney Green, between Silverdale and Leycett, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, on 23 and 24 May 1970. It was notable for the first performance of Grateful Dead in the UK and also for the performance of Jose Feliciano and Mungo Jerry, and featured such notable bands as Free, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Colosseum, Family, Black Sabbath and Traffic. The company responsible for the festival was Onista Ltd, who promptly went bankrupt unable to pay festival staff. Onista was an offshoot of Eliot Cohen's Red Bus company, with Ellis Elias and Elliot Cohen as the promoters. It was estimated to have been attended by an estimated 45,000.
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Keele
Keele is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. It is approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Newcastle-under-Lyme and is close to the village of Silverdale. It is best known as the location of Keele University.
The village is located in the Keele ward of the borough, with its name drawing from the old Anglo-Saxon Cȳ-hyll, meaning "Cow-hill". The 2001 census gave the parish a population of 3,664, increasing to 4,129 at the 2011 census. Most of the population were university students at one of its halls of residence, Hawthorns, which has since been sold for land redevelopment; it was located in the heart of the village.