Keele, Staffordshire

Description
Keele, a village and a parish in Staffordshire. The village stands 2 1/2 miles W by S of Newcastle-under-Lyme, and has a station on the North Staffordshire railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Newcastle (Staffordshire). The parish comprises 2613 acres; population of the civil parish, 1090; of the ecclesiastical, 504. The manor, with Keele Hall, has belonged to the Sneyd family from the time of Edward III. The old Elizabethan mansion was rebuilt in 1855. The inhabitants are employed chiefly in collieries, ironstone mines, and smelting furnaces. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £248 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1868, is in the-Decorated style, and has a tower with spire.