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Silverdale Country Park

1.99 miles (3.2 km)

Ordnance Survey Map Open Streetmap This pretty country park is located in Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire. It has safe, family cycle paths and well maintained walking trails taking you around the open grassland landscape. There is a large pond which attracts great crested newts, a plateau with lovely views of the surrounding countryside, farm meadows, wilidlife conservation areas and woodland areas.
The Newcastle Way walk runs past the park so you could continue your walk along this long distance path. The adjacent Apedale Country Park is also a good option if you would like to continue your outing.

Postcode

ST7 8BS - Please note: Postcode may be approximate for some rural locations

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Silverdale Country Park OS Map Ordnance survey map - Mobile GPS OS Map with Location tracking

Silverdale Country Park Open Street Map Open Streetmap - Mobile GPS Map with Location tracking

Dog Walking

It's a popular place with dog walkers so you'll probably bump into other owners on your visit.

Further Information and Other Local Ideas

A few miles south of the park you'll find the village of Keele. Here you can explore the lovely campus of Keele University which includes an arboretum, lakes and gardens. It's well laid out with several colour coded footpaths to try.
For more walking ideas in the area see the Staffordshire Walks page.

Cycle Routes and Walking Routes Nearby

Photos

Lakes near Black Bank - geograph.org.uk - 400560

Lakes near Black Bank. A couple of quite deep lakes/pools in the Silverdale Void or more correctly High Lane Void, Silverdale, the site of old opencast coal workings associated with Silverdale Colliery. Silverdale was closed in 1998, the last colliery in this area to go.

Silverdale Colliery lake - geograph.org.uk - 2605996

Silverdale Colliery lake

Silverdale Country Park, newly-created artificial pools - geograph.org.uk - 4283331

Silverdale Country Park, newly-created artificial pools

Silverdale Country Park, northern slopes of the Void - geograph.org.uk - 4268843

Northern slopes of the Void

Silverdale Country Park, Waste Farm Meadows - geograph.org.uk - 4323440

Waste Farm Meadows on the western side of the site.

Silverdale Country Park, middle track along NW slope of Void - geograph.org.uk - 4523038

Middle track along NW slope of Void

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GPS Files

GPX File

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