Apedale is a village in
Staffordshire
Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...
, England. The population at the
2011 census can be found under the Holditch (Ward) of
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme ( RP: , ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. The 2011 census population of the town was 75,082, whilst the wider borough had a population of 1 ...
.
The village is home to the
Apedale Community Country Park. The park is unusual for the area as it was previously an
opencast mine
Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from the earth from an open-air pit, sometimes known as a borrow.
This form of mining ...
.
The area has a long history of mining, with the nearby former collieries at
Silverdale and
Holditch also having been redeveloped for other uses.
See also
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Listed buildings in Newcastle-under-Lyme
References
Villages in Staffordshire
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