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Welcome to Newcastle–under–Lyme

This section provides a wide range of information to give you a flavour of visiting, living and working in the Newcastle Borough.

We are a Borough with a proud history that can be traced back nearly one thousand years, and we work hard to make sure that our communities have a modern and exciting future.

Good communications have been responsible for much of the Borough's past development and our position in the centre of the country and at the heart of the motorway network ensure we remain a key distribution centre.

While our canal network is no longer well-used by industry but it is increasingly popular with visitors – particularly the awesome feat of engineering involved in building the one and a half mile-long Harecastle tunnels at Kidsgrove.

But as well as traditional communications, our Borough is taking advantage of the benefits of digital communications and several companies on our business parks are at the forefront of new technology.

Visitors can enjoy our wide variety of historic buildings, which range from half-timbered, thatched cottages in outlying rural villages like Betley to impressive Georgian buildings in the two main towns of Newcastle and Kidsgrove.

A vivid and colourful reminder of the Borough's past is the bustling market which helped to found Newcastle's prosperity hundreds of years ago and now operates six days a week. Even more colourful are our spectacular floral displays, which have helped us win regional and national wards in the “Britain in Bloom” competition.