Vegetable pulled up, with energy, somewhere in Staffordshire (5)

I believe the answer is:

keele

'somewhere in staffordshire' is the definition.

'vegetable pulled up with energy' is the wordplay.
'vegetable' becomes 'leek' (leek is a kind of vegetable).
'pulled up' says the letters should be written backwards.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'energy' becomes 'e' (physics symbol as in E=mc2).
'leek' reversed gives 'keel'.
'keel'+'e'='KEELE'

(Another definition for keele that I've seen is " Staffordshire university".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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