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| Name: | Wetley Moor |
| Hill number: | 19272 |
| Height: | 278m / 912ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2825 The Cloud |
| RHB Section: | 36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines |
| County/UA: | Staffordshire |
| Catchment: | Trent |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
| Grid ref: | SJ 93505 48357 |
| Summit feature: | large boulder |
| Drop: | 31m |
| Col: | 247m SJ950478  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 118 (1:25k) 258 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 42 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From car park to SE, up track and to trig first. Then back to the HP through undergrowth and up to rock. Came back to path same way as this seemed easiest way. | PeterD | 26/07/2023 |
| Halfdecent | 01/03/2023 | |
| KJ On the N end of the highest land just off path running N along field boundaries from car park entrance. Good views over Stoke area. Thought it would be close to the large stone which appears to be on the highest top but it's further on. | crazy | 23/08/2022 |
| Nice walk from public car park to south. Best summit of the day - prominent rock and all round views inc. The Wrekin and Clywd hills, Roaches and Shutlingsloe. | Nick Canute | 25/06/2022 |
| Evening accent With Maria Jones while staying with her in Macclesfield | vegibagger | 27/05/2022 |
| BaggerGutt | 05/04/2022 | |
| Summit boulder and surrounding rough heathery land around is actually on CROW Access land -if you zoom in on Magic Maps - despite what any neighbouring householder may say. Depsite this its a tussle with vegetation and a fence to reach the boulder from the footpath. Wetley Moor is a lowland heath (SSSI) and open common which has been mined. Visitors (mostly local dog walkers I suspect) are encouraged to report any significant ground subsidence to the Coal Authority. (I didn't know one still exist -but it does - dealing with historical subisdence claims and issueing licences for methane extraction and the like). To get your own back on the brambly vegaetation you could volunteer to take part in scrub clearance and you will be helping to preserve a truly special local environment.(lowland heath being rarer than rainforest the council tell us -presumably they mean globally not just in Staffordshire!) | Chris Pearson | 30/03/2022 |
| From CP @ SJ 9377 4806. Top of the rock is a fine lookout - pity it's within someone's fence. | summitsup | 01/01/2022 |
| Via overgrown footpath to east. Fine summit rock. | Wycombe Wanderer | 17/10/2021 |
| From the moor car pk 400m SSE, lower track to farm, trig pt, then crag summit. As we left we were shouted at 'it's my garden' hence the pathetic bw fence... or maybe because my brother was heading down towards the house AFTER we were on the summit. So back over bw and higher path on moor back. Lived up to it's name, but weather cleared for the day's next 7 hills. | pwheeler | 25/09/2021 |
| Martin R | 04/03/2020 | |
| Parked in Wetley Moor car park and walked along the path towards the summit boulder. For some reason the summit area is behind a bwf. The boulder looks tricky from below but is easy enough from the back. | clivevilla | 26/02/2020 |
| 7 of 15 on 45 mile bike ride. Reached footpaths from washerwell lane then followed sodden footpaths to summit. Break time time for sandwiches | The-Z-Man | 31/12/2019 |
| Prominent gritstone outcrop on NE side of track along NE edge of Wetley Moor. | RichardM | 11/11/2019 |
| On return drive from Stoke. | BobHancock | 25/07/2019 |
| Parked in main car park, not long to get to the trig. | ironwolf | 15/07/2019 |
| Parked in car park...took path to second set of rocks where peak is located. At this time of year, the approach to rocks is covered with a mass of brambles and nettles. Not being dressed to take on the mass I headed to trig point and accessed peak a bit higher up. | iron_sun | 14/07/2019 |
| From the bus at Werrington windmill tower. Approached by RoW and lane from the south to a CP. A broad track around the access boundary leads to a very short brambly trod and bwf to gain the summit. | Moorponder | 11/03/2019 |
| Alex C | 23/10/2018 | |
| Convenient CP to SE. Easy paths until final few metres to boulder, then brambles, nettles and BWF. With Tol and Felix. 8m ascent | RoguePulsar | 31/08/2018 |
| I was with my family. It was only a 8 metre ascent!! | speedyclimber | 31/08/2018 |
| Parked at car park to SE then followed track up towards summit. Visited trig first with great views NW. Summit boulder was awkward to access, protected by nettles and BWF. | Wheelsy | 02/08/2018 |
| ngthack route to boulder, easy to climb | RobertP | 15/07/2018 |
| Been up to this summit many times from the car park, well marked path, great view of Stoke-on-Trent | Kniverbee | 21/05/2018 |
| From car park to SE. Good paths then up onto the SCFC rock. | rhalstead | 11/03/2018 |
| Good parking to east @ SJ936484 | carole engel | 28/01/2018 |
| Third log of 8 today on a 21.8 mile walk from Longton to Blythe Bridge station, first exploring Park Hall Hill and the former summit before heading to Hulme Village, footpath to Widow Fields farm then lane NE and a fiddly footpath beside a stream to enter Washerwall then out again encountering pleasant woodland. On reaching access land headed East then NE on road, continuing up on footpath, over fence and across to the boulder. Wetley was living upto its namesake! Dropped down to the road for the trek across to Overmoor. | Dazingdale | 27/01/2018 |
| I followed Nigel's route then climbed onto boulder. | Dugswell2 | 14/01/2018 |
| as for Aye Jimmy. | arranc | 20/08/2017 |
| From car park and easy along very well established paths to close to boulder.didn't find the b/wire too bad. Fine view point. | stig_nest | 29/04/2017 |
| From car park to SE. Ascended by ngthack's route which avoids awkward fence crossing. Descended north over fence to trig then back along paths. | davidpettit84 | 23/04/2017 |
| From car park to S, followed path till opposite boulder then brambles and awkward crossing of bwf. Easily onto top. | Aye Jimmy | 05/04/2017 |
| From SSE as others, car park, good path beside wall then as per ngt, easy scramble onto boulder within designated access land. Dreich late pm with a cold E wind. | RHW | 12/02/2017 |
| Adderley Green to Cellarhead. Approached from Ash Bank & SW corner of the moor aptly titled Wetley. | Smudge | 05/02/2017 |
| Mud: Horses but an easy crossing of the wire fence and up to the summit stone. | GordonAdshead | 29/01/2017 |
| Climbed boulder in twilight with great view of the lights of The Potteries in the snow | Mark Sims | 14/01/2017 |
| From car park. 100 m before boulder, turn right up narrow path to small gate, then under single strand of bw, across shallow quarry to boulder. Good friction on boulder, despite looking green & greasy. | ngthack | 31/12/2016 |
| Easy walk from car park to the south. Final few ms involves an awkward bwf and an easy clamber up an obvious big boulder. | Campbell Singer | 29/12/2016 |
| Good parking then short walk to boulder - which is on the other side of a barbed wire fence. | Alan Caine | 28/12/2016 |
| Parking at SJ 93771 48068 (car park). Head North for 30 yards then follow the wall NW for about five minutes to summit. Agree with Andrew Brown that the obvious high point is the large boulder. As a child I lived about a mile away from here - we always called this area Wetley Common. | David Evans | 27/12/2016 |
| PeteF | 27/12/2016 | |
| andrew brown | 26/12/2016 |