These include Long Low, Wetton, a prehistoric burial site unique to England.

Wetton village is primarily a collection of farmhouses, with the gaps filled in by cottages and a few larger houses.

[3] The old village hall, situated on the road to Wetton Mill, was a corrugated iron construction which was unusable by the 1960s.

The Charge Book is held in Staffordshire records office and this indicates that between 1890 and 1941 some 28 persons were detained overnight for various alleged offences.

The Royal Oak public house is famous for the annual toe wrestling competition.

Many local caves and cave-shelters have been excavated and have yielded evidence of inhabitation stretching far back into prehistory.

Wetton is not recorded in the Norman Domesday Book of 1086, unlike neighbouring Alstonefield, Warslow and Stanshope.

[12] The remains of an Anglo-Saxon settlement, with earlier evidence of Roman occupation, were found in nearby Borough Fields by the geologist Samuel Carrington in the mid-18th century, and excavated by his friend Thomas Bateman who was then the leading local antiquary.

In the late Victorian period the most significant heavy industry was related to the construction of the Leek and Manifold Light Railway and mining at Ecton.

There is ample parking by the mill, on the site of the old halt, and the café is a popular stopping point for walkers using the Manifold Way and the many other rural walks that can incorporate parts of it.

Immediately downstream from the mill are several "swallow holes" where the River Manifold begins to flow underground to Ilam.

The conclusion of the 14th-century chivalric romantic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is thought to be set in the district.

Mabel Day (1940)[20] proposed Nan Tor Cave, "at the bottom of the valley where the Hoo Brook runs into the Manifold at Wetton Mill" (near the site of the Wetton Mill train station), as a candidate for the Green Chapel.

Beeston Tor is a prominent rock face opposite the confluence of the River Hamps.

The village of Wetton was a good mile from the station, and the fact that the line followed the valley bottom whereas the settlements served by the railway were mostly on the hill-tops above was a contributary factor in its demise.

The line closed in 1934, but in 1937 the route was reopened as the Manifold Way, a fully tarmacked 8-mile walk- and cycle-path which runs from Hulme End in the north to Waterhouses in the south.

Views from the summit include Rugeley power station, some 25 miles south (now demolished).

At one time a wooded area of the valley side near the Low was designated as a nature reserve.

Long Low is a Neolithic and Bronze Age burial site of a rare form, unique to Britain.