--- title: "Wetley Rocks – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Wetley Rocks, United Kingdom: Wetley Rocks is a village in Staffordshire, England, about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Cheddleton and 6 miles (9.7 km) south…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wetley-rocks" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wetley-rocks.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Main_Road%2C_Wetley_Rocks.JPG" --- Village in Staffordshire, England · United Kingdom # 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](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Main_Road%2C_Wetley_Rocks.JPG) 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetley_Rocks), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddleton_Flint_Mill) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churnet_Valley_Railway) 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. Go there ## 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nottingham-leicestershire-to-wetley-rocks) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nottingham%2C+Leicestershire&to=Wetley+Rocks) - Liverpool → Wetley Rocks 74 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £9–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/liverpool-to-wetley-rocks) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Liverpool&to=Wetley+Rocks) - Birmingham, West Midlands → Wetley Rocks 62 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £7–9 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/birmingham-west-midlands-to-wetley-rocks) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Birmingham%2C+West+Midlands&to=Wetley+Rocks) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Wetley%20Rocks) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. 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 in The city is on the National Cycle Route No.5, which runs through the city on off-road paths. - Get around The 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](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 266 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 273 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 346 km 4. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 382 km 5. [Isle of Jura](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-jura) GB 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](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cwetley-rocks&title=Wetley+Rocks&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fwetley-rocks), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Wetley Rocks Wetley Rocks is 51 km from [Manchester](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/manchester), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Cheddleton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cheddleton) village in Staffordshire, England, UK 2.9 km - [Consall](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/consall) village in Staffordshire, England, UK 1.5 km - [Werrington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/werrington) village in Staffordshire, United Kingdom 2.8 km - [Bagnall](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bagnall) village in Staffordshire, England, UK 3.9 km - [Armshead](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/armshead) hamlet in Staffordshire, England, UK 3 km [The place page for Wetley Rocks](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/wetley-rocks) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wetley-rocks, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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