Crackley
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Crackley is an estate in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. It lies on the edge of the larger village of Chesterton and is mainly made up of mid to late 20th century housing.
It has a small amount of shops, there is shops up ceder road which is next to crackley. There is a shop that people still call days which is now a co-op. most local shopping is done in Chesterton [citation needed]. It has one primary school, Crackley Bank Primary School, and most children from this area usually attend Chesterton Community Sports College after leaving.
The housing estate was built at the start of the 1960s and consisting council houses and housing for the Miners who mainly worked at Holditch colliery in Chesterton . There were a number of shops on a parade on Birchouse Road but they have disappeared over the years. A supermarket used to exist on Holly road run by the Co-Op. After the store closed it was turned into a community centre.
A doctors surgery existed on Cherry Tree Road but moved to Chesterton in the late 70's.
This was a vibrate community with a pub and number of shops, There is now a vision centre in Chesterton to replace previous old Victorian building, which was a boy/girl school split in halfs in Victorian times. The new vision centre is a youth club full of activties. The pub which was situated on Whitethorn Way called The Hulstone closed and was left derelict.
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