[1] Artefacts from Stanton have been recorded as dating to all three periods of the Stone age: Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic.

[2] The oldest was a worked flint core found in 2006 after ditch maintenance west of the stream below Hill Farm.

According to local history, in the late 18th-century, the village was hit by a freak hailstorm when large stones caused extensive damage and this accounts for the lack of older buildings.

The stone cross stands on a plinth that is inscribed with the names of the three men from the parish who fell in World War I: As a Millennium project, it was moved after maintenance, to the memorial area outside the old churchyard.

From April 12, 2019, the memorial has been Grade II listed as being of special architectural or historic interest.

21 poplar trees were planted around the perimeter of the tower itself and there was to be an apple orchard and the site contained within a wrought-iron fence.

This passes along the Melton Road (A606) five times a day in each direction and runs via Tollerton, Normanton-on-the-Wolds, Nether Broughton, Melton Mowbray, Ashwell & Langham The Nottingham Minibus 853 service also runs on Monday to Saturday, from Hickling and Kinoulton through Stanton, Keyworth, Plumtree and Tollerton to the Morrisons supermarket in Gamston.