Ivonbrook Grange is wholly within the Peak District national park on its southern edge, and shares a border with the parishes of Aldwark, Bonsall, Brassington, Ible as well as Winster.

[3] Ivonbrook Grange is surrounded by the following local areas:[2] The parish is roughly bounded by land features such as the disused Ivonbrook Quarry to the north, the quarry pond to the west, Tophill Farm in the east, while the A5012 Via Gellia road between Cromford and Newhaven, as well as the minor road to Ible lie to the south.

[4] Primarily farming and pasture land throughout the parish outside the sparsely populated areas, there is little forestry throughout, mainly around the fringes, the largest cluster alongside the quarry.

[6] There is one unnamed brook that begins south of Wigley Meadow Farm in the centre of the parish, and flows to Grangemill and through the Via Gellia valley to Cromford.

[18][19] At the time of Domesday in 1086 the wider area was held by Henry de Ferrers, Ivonbrook was reported as waste land with no residents, but was not said to be a manor.

[13] After the Black Death and resulting impact on livelihoods and labour in the 14th century, many monasteries were forced to lease their granges to secular locals, until this point the Cistercians had little to no judicial or administrative involvement with the communities.

[27] The manor from Lord Scarsdale passed to a relation of the Scarsdale/Curzon family holding Lockington Hall, and individual plots sold off in 1918.

[28] Limekilns locations have been recorded locally, suggesting limestone mining and processing taking place in the vicinity from medieval times, until the 19th century.

It produced a range of limestone aggregates, primarily for use in the manufacture of concrete products and asphalt, eventually expanding to two sites taking up much of this portion of the parish.