Keele
Keele is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England.
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.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Keele
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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- 04Moseley Railway Trust
Industrial railway museum & narrow gauge railway in Staffordshire, England
3.5 km · Wikipedia - 05Old Unitarian Meeting House
House in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, UK
3.9 km · Wikipedia - 06
- 07Apedale Heritage Centre
Museum in Apedale, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, UK
3.4 km · Wikipedia - 08Motte and bailey castle 100m and 200m south of St Mary's School
Motte-and-bailey castle in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, UK
3.7 km · Wikipedia - 09Church of St Luke, Silverdale
Church in Silverdale, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire ST5, UK
1.7 km · Wikipedia - 10
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Keele
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 38 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 53 km · East Midlands (EMA), 67 km
- Liverpool → Keele65 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £8–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Keele76 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £8–11
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Keele64 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £7–9
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Keele
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Keele. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe city is on the National Cycle Route No.5, which runs through the city on off-road paths.
- Get aroundThe city has over 100 miles (160 km) of excellent off-road bicycle paths, old railway and mineral lines, and canal towpaths.
From Wikivoyage: Stoke-on-Trent, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Keele – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Keele
Keele is 53 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Newcastle-under-Lymenon-metropolitan district in Staffordshire, England4 km
- Madeleyvillage and civil parish in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, North Staffordshire, England3.6 km
- Silverdalevillage and civil parish in Staffordshire, England1.8 km
- Alsagers Bankvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK3.1 km
- Apedalevillage in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, UK2.9 km
- Halmer Endvillage in Staffordshire, United Kingdom3.8 km