Ecton, Staffordshire
Historical Description
Ecton, a hamlet in Wetton parish, Staffordshire, 8½ miles E of Leek. Ecton Hill here is about 700 feet high, and has yielded vast quantities of lead and copper ore.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Maps
Online maps of Ecton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)