The ancient village and parish of Weston was a forest clearing on the outskirts and was part of the Chartley Estate which was sold off in 1904.

The high ground meant that the surrounding land was well drained with a good water supply from the nearby River Trent.

Weston was a centre of salt production in the 19th century, with saltworks both in the village and at the nearby hamlet of Shirleywich.

The Parish Church of St. Andrews was restored by George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s and by William Butterfield in the 1870s.

In the village, the present thatched "Manor House", which has been used as a farm building in the past, dates from the 16th Century.

In the mid 19th Century it was used as the national School and school keeper's cottage, then as a Wesleyan Methodist meeting house until the present Methodist Church was built at the start of the 20th Century along the main London - Chester road.

The village hall [10] is regularly used by local groups and hosts the monthly Weston & Gayton Parish Council meetings.