[2] Madeley is located 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Newcastle-under-Lyme town centre and is close to the Shropshire and Cheshire borders.

[3] Heighley Castle was built in 1226 by Henry de Audley[3] and ordered to be demolished by a Parliamentary committee sitting at Stafford in 1644 to prevent its use by Royalists.

A significant feature and well-known landmark of the village is Madeley Mill, which stands on the dam for the pool.

It fell into disrepair before being developed and converted into apartments in the early 1990s, saving it from proposed demolition by the local council.

Sinking began in the 1880s and the colliery had five shafts with exotic names: Bang Up, Fair Lady, Clarkes, Harrisons and Woodburn.

There is nothing left of the site nowadays, it being subject to open cast mining that removed the remaining coal and the slag heaps.It is used for agriculture.

[4] There was also a Madeley Road station on the North Staffordshire Railway's branch line to Market Drayton which was opened on 1 February 1870 and closed in 1931.

[7] However, during the 1960s the station at Madeley Road was reopened and used as a messroom by British Rail traincrew and shunters for running around coal rrains destined for Silverdale and Holditch Collieries.