(After Stoney Middleton Youth Club cleared undergrowth in the early 1980s, the building was consolidated and made secure by local craftsmen with the aid of a grant by Peak Park).

[2] A semi-circular earth platform called "Castle Hill" overlooks the village; academic opinion varies as to what this earthwork originally was.

[8]Local archaeologists and historians have speculated (since 1996) that the original location of the village, which was ravaged by the Black Death, may have been immediately to the south of the Old Hall, on a series of terraces (still visible from the public footpath overlooking the meadows between the lower, modern extension of the village and the bottom of the "Town" the hill by the Moon Inn which leads up to Stoney Middleton Junior School).

Renewal of the village led to the construction of a stone chapel in the 15th century at the crossroads of the roads/tracks going between Eyam and Grindleford, which was dedicated to Saint Martin, perhaps to cater for pilgrims to the spring.

Atop a cliff above Middleton Dale lies Lovers Leap, from which Hannah Baddeley jumped in 1762, but miraculously survived.

A primary school was built in 1835 by public subscription and is the meeting place for the Parish Council, the PTA, WI, Horticultural Society, Tennis Club, and other activities of the village.

[17] Darlton Quarry was bombed by two German Junkers Ju 88s during World War II; both aircraft being shot down as they returned home.

[19] The Dale became a major centre for Peak District rock climbers in the 1960s and 1970s, initially developed by people like Jack Street, Geoff Birtles, and Tom Proctor, who in 1968 established one of the hardest climbs in the world at that time, Our Father (E4 6b) on Windy Buttress.

[citation needed] The Moon Inn was a pub much frequented by the climbing fraternity and maintains the tradition today with a "muddy boots welcome" sign and Bed and Breakfast for walkers and climbers.

[24] The village was featured in the first episode of Most Haunted: Midsummer Murders in which the team investigates the death of a supposedly Scottish peddler and of Hannah Baddeley.

In the spring of 2021, production crews for the forthcoming Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One film began to construct a set in a disused quarry near to the village.