There is also a stately home, Stanton Park, a combination of the English Classical style, and later Palladian alterations, which is a private house.

The village, mentioned in the Domesday Book and of probable Saxon origin, is close to several prehistoric monuments, including Doll Tor and Nine Ladies Bronze Age stone circles and numerous Bronze Age burial cairns on Stanton Moor.

There is also the Earl Grey Tower, raised as a monument to the passing of the Reform Act 1832 and much evidence of ancient and modern sandstone quarrying.

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.

[2] William Pole Thornhill represented the constituency of North Derbyshire,[3] Thornhill and his wife, Isabella, were considerable benefactors to the village, building the parish church, Holy Trinity, in 1833, the reading rooms and "The Stand", originally known as "The Belvedere", a viewing platform giving panoramic views over the Wye Valley.