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Leycett was a small mining village in Staffordshire in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. Population details as taken at the 2011 census can be found under Madeley with the name Leycett meaning 'the clearing in the woods'
Leycett was served by a railway station which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on 28 June 1880. At its peak the village as well as having a colliery also had a miners institute, a church, a village shop with off-licence, a Post Office, a Butchers, the railway station as mentioned above, a doctors, a school and a recreation ground built by the miners which had a cricket pitch, football pitch, tennis courts and a bowling green.
The village has all but been knocked down now after the colliery closed down in 1957, but the cricket club which has been around since about 1881 continues to this day playing in one of the top leagues in the country.
The village hosted the Hollywood music festival in 1970 which attracted 45,000 people over the weekend with acts such as Black Sabbath, Mungo Jerry and Grateful Dead. This was the first rock concert to be held in the northern part of Britain. The concert should have been aired on the BBC but the story goes that the film crew were spiked with LSD by one of the bands.
Category:Villages in Staffordshire Category:Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough