Sneyd Green

Sneyd Green borders Smallthorne in the north, Milton in the east, Birches Head in the south, and Cobridge in the west.

For local government purposes the greater part of Sneyd Green is in the East Valley electoral ward.

In the early 1970s Central Forest Park was created by the City Council from three enormous coal spoil heaps, deep mine shafts, water-filled marl pits, disused railways and decaying buildings.

There is young woodland, marshy reed beds, grassland and the main pool, popular with anglers, covers approximately four acres of water and is tree lined around most of its perimeter.

The Ford Green Brook, a tributary of the River Trent, flows through a conservation area where angling is not permitted.

According to the Environment team, the site currently supports "a wide variety of birds including great crested and little grebes, swans, coots and moorhens.

Other wildlife includes grass snakes, which shelter and hunt for frogs in the grassland and marshy areas, plus dragonflies and butterflies".

In better weather, keen ramblers and campers from all over North Staffordshire pass through Sneyd Green in their cars on their way to the Peak District.