Hughley Brook

Apedale
Apedale
Apedale shown within Staffordshire
OS grid reference	SJ8149
Shire county	Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom

Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
EU Parliament	West Midlands
List of places UK England Staffordshire 53°02′N 2°17′W / 53.03°N 02.28°W / 53.03; -02.28Coordinates: 53°02′N 2°17′W / 53.03°N 02.28°W / 53.03; -02.28

Apedale is a village in Staffordshire, England. The population at the 2011 census can be found under the Holditch (Ward) of Newcastle-under-Lyme.

The village is home to the 454 acres (184 ha) Apedale Community Country Park. The park is unusual for the area as it was previously an opencast mine.

The area has a long history of mining, with the nearby former collieries at Silverdale and Holditch also having been redeveloped for other uses.

Hughley Brook is a site of Special Scientific Interest in Shropshire. It is one of the Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points for the Sheinwoodian, an age of the Wenlock, the second series of the Silurian, where the conodont Pterospathodus amorphognathoides first appeared.