The manor of Keele was held by the Sneyd (pronounced Snade) family and in about 1580 Ralph Sneyd built a large gabled Tudor style house there.
The first part of the line to be built required the private Silverdale & Newcastle Railway, built in 1850 by ironmaster Ralph Sneyd, to become public.
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