Apedale Community Country Park

About

Apedale Community Country Park is a 454-acre (184 ha) country park in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. The park is unusual for the area as it was previously an opencast mine. The area has a long history of mining, with the nearby former collieries at Silverdale and Holditch also having been redeveloped for other uses. The shallow mine at Holditch was redeveloped into a business park and an industrial estate, which led to significant capital gains for Staffordshire County Council. The amelioration of the park was part paid for out of these receipts. Within the park is the Apedale Heritage Centre. The adjoining Moseley Railway Trust is currently running the first phase of the 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge Apedale Valley Light Railway extending further into the parkland. There is a series of tracks, waymarked routes and self-guided trails. The country park is also the home of Newcastle Countryside Project and is bordered by the communities of Silverdale, Chesterton, Knutton and Cross Heath.

Coordinates

53.0323, -2.2709

County

Staffordshire

District

Newcastle-under-Lyme

Parish

Newcastle-under-Lyme, unparished area

Postcode

ST5 6BJ

Parliamentary constituency

Newcastle-under-Lyme

Official site

www.apedale.co.uk

Sources

• wikipedia: Apedale Community Country Park (CC BY-SA 4.0)