Newcastle-under-Lyme occurs as occupy market town inside Staffordshire, England, not to exist as confused using a big city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. These are astir Twenty-six miles (42 kilometre) northerly of the shire town of Stafford.

A town sits as much as Little phoebe miles (Eighter from decatur kilometre) west of neighbouring city Stoke-on-Trent, although the suburban area of the town rerun into victims of the city. Newcastle is typically unofficially considered to exist as an wealthy suburban front yard of the city of Stoke-in-Trent, each form a share of an area called The Potteries.

In the 2001 census the town got the people of 74,427. A big borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme has a people of 122,000.

A town wwhen selected for the campus of University College of Northerly Staffordshire inside 1949, which was granted to the full university status as Keele University in 1962. Likewise on the campus is Keele Science Park. A town so serves as a 'campus town' for the University & too for the adjacent University Hospital of North Staffordshire.

Newcastle's industries include: construction materials, dress, computers, publication, electric motors, & machinery.

History

the town grew higher about a 'freshly' castle which was built by the Normans in the 12th century, ruins of which still last, & was known as "under-Lyme" due to its proximity to the previous Lyme woods.

Rather neighboring Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle's early economy was based as much as pottery, and afterwards likewise coal mining - both of which develop declined around recent decades.

Newcastle is on a national canal network, however the canal, running from a Trent and Mersey Canal at Stoke-on-Trent to Sir Nigel Gresley's Canal has been disused since 1935.

Churches

Newcastle has numbers of wharehouses of worship including 'Newcastle's Faith' which is an old non-conformist place of worship, the 'Old Honeysuckle', attached to the church of St Giles'. For numerous years it has been utilized per Unitarians, amongst whom were Josiah Wedgwood and his family. These are said monks had the secret passage in the church of St. Giles, however this is extra folk-lore than fact. Newcastle occurs as Methodists stronghold, especially the Kidsgrove area.

Catholic churches are numbers of within Newcastle, virtually all notably Holy Trinity, whose style is Gothic in blue engineering bricks, described as... "the finest modern specimen of ornamental brickwork in the kingdom" at a instance. Holy Trinity shares partiality between Catholics & Protestants.

There exists of these little Baptist church in the area, on the A34.

Famous people

Newcastle's best known boy is Joseph Cook, who became Prime Minister of Australia. A town can likewise claim to stand been a birthplace or even schooling place of the novelists Arnold Bennett and Vera Brittain, and a poets John Wain and T.E. Hulme.

Culture

The carnival is held every Can around Newcastle. Newcastle has on top a years increased dramatically a total of pubs, wine bars & nighttime clubs, & is known in a arethe for requiring a big law presence at the weekend. Newcastle okay, rivals Hanley, Stoke-in-Trent, for its alcohol-depending nightlife. There exists too the microscopic-however-vibrant town-centre survive music scene by using folk music, jazz, blues and heavy metal all catered for.

Education
Training institutions include Newcastle under Lyme School, a buck private school established in the 17th century.

A swell celebrated Keele University, situated per village of Keele is only Trine miles outside of Newcastle.

Sport

A town is front yard to Newcastle Town F.C., an association football club, who currently play in the North West Counties Football League Division One.