Stanton in Peak (also written as Stanton-in-Peak) is a village in the

Derbyshire Dales Derbyshire Dales ( ) is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Derbyshire, England. The district was created in 1974 as West Derbyshire; the name was changed to Derbyshire Dales in 1987. The council is based in the town of Matl ...

district of

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, It is about seven miles north-west of Matlock, on the north side of

Stanton Moor Stanton Moor is a small upland area in the Derbyshire Peak District of central northern England, lying between Matlock and Bakewell near the villages of Birchover and Stanton-in-Peak. It is known for its megaliths – particularly the Nine ...

, from

Birchover Birchover is a village and civil parish in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, England, five miles north-west of Matlock. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 362. Eagle Tor is a small hamlet on the north western edge of the ...

. The name of the

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is Stanton with a population taken at the 2011 census of 365. There is a 19th-century parish church, and many stone houses, with

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windows. There is also a

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Stanton Park Stanton Park, previously known as Stanton Square, is a national park in Washington D.C.Stanton Park

, a combination of the English Classical style, and later

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alterations, which is a private house.

History

The village, mentioned in the Domesday Book and of probable Saxon origin, is close to several prehistoric monuments, including Doll Tor and

Nine Ladies The Nine Ladies is a stone circle located on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire in the English East Midlands. The Nine Ladies is part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany during the La ...

Bronze Age stone circles and numerous Bronze Age burial cairns on

. They have no connection to Druids, who were an Iron Age culture. There is also the Earl Grey Tower, raised as a monument to the passing of the

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and much evidence of ancient and modern sandstone quarrying. Nineteenth-century lead mines are evident lower down the village. There is also a school (Victorian) on School Lane. The Thornhill family, which owns Stanton Hall, was responsible for the construction of the majority of buildings in the village, most of which date from the 17th and 18th centuries.

William Pole Thornhill William Pole Thornhill (1807 – 12 February 1876) was a British Whig and then Liberal Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1853 to 1865. Life He was the son of Henry Bache Thornhill (son of Bache Thornhill) and his wife Helen ...

represented the constituency of North Derbyshire, Thornhill and his wife, Isabella, were considerable benefactors to the village, building the parish church,

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, in 1833, the reading rooms and "The Stand", originally known as "The Belvedere", a viewing platform giving panoramic views over the Wye Valley. Many of the houses in the village carry the initials "WPT".

Geography

The nearest village is Birchover, around a mile to the south. , the population was 200–210.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stanton In Peak Villages in Derbyshire Towns and villages of the Peak District Derbyshire Dales

History

Geography

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