It's plain amazing to think that the Sneyd family had to do very very little to 'earn' this huge hall. The land they owned just had acres and acres of coal underneath it - and they made a handsome living from the rights. They even built a racecourse (no longer there) at the end of one of their drives!
The last Sneyd died in the fifties I think, and by then this hall had already become part of what was to be Keele University.
At least now it's put to good use.
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