Places in Wetton in 1872

WETTON

ECTON, a hamlet in Wetton parish, Stafford; 8 miles E of Leek. Ecton hill here is about 700 feet high, and has yielded vast quantities of lead and copper ore. A mine in it was worked for about a century, attained a depth of about 300 fathoms, was eventually abandoned, and is now full of water; but another shaft, in the near neighbourhood, was being sunk in 1860.

[Description(s) from The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]