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Wetley Rocks

Wetley Rocks is a village in Staffordshire, England, about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Cheddleton and 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Leek.

Wetley Rocks
Wetley Rocks · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Wetley Rocks is a village in Staffordshire, England, about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Cheddleton and 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Leek. For population details as taken at the 2011 census see under Consall.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wetley Rocks

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Cheddleton Flint Mill

    Cheddleton Flint Mill is a water mill situated in the village of Cheddleton in the English county of Staffordshire. The mill race takes water from the river Churnet.

    3.6 km · Flint Mill by the Caldon Canal in Cheddleton, Staffordshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Churnet Valley Railway

    The Churnet Valley Railway is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway running through the Staffordshire Moorlands and the valley of the River Churnet in Staffordshire, England. It operates along part of the former Churnet Valley Line, which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway in 1849, and the Waterhouses branch line which opened in 1905.

    3.4 km · heritage railway in England · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Wetley Rocks

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 38 km · East Midlands (EMA), 54 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 62 km
Stations
Consall railway station, 3.5 km · Cheddleton railway station, 3.5 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Wetley Rocks
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £8–10
  • Liverpool → Wetley Rocks
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £9–12
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Wetley Rocks
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £7–9
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wetley Rocks

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Wetley Rocks. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe city is on the National Cycle Route No.5, which runs through the city on off-road paths.
  • Get aroundThe city has over 100 miles (160 km) of excellent off-road bicycle paths, old railway and mineral lines, and canal towpaths.

From Wikivoyage: Stoke-on-Trent, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    266 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    273 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    346 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    382 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    407 km

If you know how people move in Wetley Rocks – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Wetley Rocks

Wetley Rocks is 51 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Cheddletonvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK2.9 km
  • Consallvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK1.5 km
  • Werringtonvillage in Staffordshire, United Kingdom2.8 km
  • Bagnallvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Armsheadhamlet in Staffordshire, England, UK3 km