Village in Staffordshire, England

Keele

Keele is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England.

Every way there

Liverpool → Keele
65 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £8–11
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Keele
76 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £8–11
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Keele
64 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £7–9
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Keele, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Keele has

YScheduled flightsManchester, Greater Manchester (MAN), 38 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
YFerriesferry terminal, 8 km; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

53.004°, -2.287°

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.

How locals move

Getting around Keele the local way

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. Last edited 2026-09.

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