In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Elmton like this: ELMTON-WITH-CRESSWELL, a parish in the district of Worksop, and county of Derby; on the NE verge of the county, 5 miles E by S of Staveley r. station, and 8 ENE of Chesterfield.

Elmton being recorded in the Domesday Book commissioned by William the Conqueror, but if Creswell existed then it would have been a small outlying hamlet or farm.

In 1722 an Estate Map shows what this post medieval settlement may have looked like with buildings spread along the valley and a nucleus of buildings at the southern end of the village around an open space called Creswell Green, part of which is now known as Fox Green.

Further development of Creswell took place in the 18th century in response to the construction of a turnpike road (today A616) along the valley linking Chesterfield and Mansfield.

Between 1894 and 1900 North Eastern Derbyshire was transformed by the Coal Industry and associated increase in population and housing.

The Bolsover Colliery Company was formed in 1894 and trial sinking in Crewsell began in the September of the same year.

10 acres, the Model Village consists of 250 two storied houses built in the form of a double octagon (an inner and outer circle).

[9] According to Neighbourhood Statistics on unshared and shared properties in Elmton-with-Creswell, out of the 2,511 dwellings 100% of them are unshared dwellings[10] Out of the 2,834 households, 655 of those are one person households which is 27.47% of the households in the area[11] There are 10 Listed building within the Elmton area, all with grade two listing, these include, Barn to South of Grange Farmhouse, Church of St Mary Magdalen, Church of St Peter, Creswell Church of England Infants School, Creswell Junior School, Elmton Park Farmhouse, Elmtree Farmhouse, Former Creswell Church of England Secondary School, Grange Farmhouse and the War Memorial on Elmton Road.

[12] The closest main towns to Elmton with Creswell are Mansfield and Chesterfield as well as Bolsover, Clowne, Shirebrook, Worksop, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Tuxford, Doncaster and Newark-on-Trent.

The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Parish of Elmton with Creswell.