Description
Wetton, a village and a parish in Staffordshire. The village lies on the river Manifold, 7 1/2 miles NW by N of Ashborne. It has a post and money order office under Ashborne; telegraph office, Hartington. The parish includes also the hamlet of Ecton, and comprises 2630 acres; population, 308. The course of the Manifold here is partly subterranean. A limestone cliff rises over it near Ecton, and is pierced with a ramified cavern about 130 feet long. Limestone partly variegated and partly of marble quality is quarried. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £175 with residence. The church, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt in 1820, and restored in 1895. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
