Earl Stanhope became Lord of the Manor in the eighteenth Century, eventually selling the parish to the Stanton Ironworks Company.

Only workers at the Ironworks, a major local employer which dominated the area for over two centuries, were allowed to live in Stanton owned properties.

In 2008 the clubhouse was vastly extended to allow for two bar restaurant areas, a new and enlarged locker and changing rooms.

[6] Stanton-by-Dale CC is based at the end of School Lane on Crompton Ground, to the west of the village[7] and filed two senior teams in the Derbyshire County Cricket League.

[8] Some of the villagers have produced a video describing a proposed 4000 house development and the associated planned access across green belt land.