Leycett

Leycett
Park Terrace - some of the remaining buildings of Leycett
Leycett
Location within Staffordshire
OS grid referenceSJ795467
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNewcastle, Staffs
Postcode districtST5
Dialling code01782
PoliceStaffordshire
FireStaffordshire
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament

Leycett is a village in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. It was built in the late 1860s to accommodate miners and their families at the nearby collieries and coal mines. Population details as taken at the 2011 census can be found under Madeley with the name Leycett meaning 'the clearing in the woods'.