It is noted for the 121-foot (37 m)[1] Stoodley Pike Monument at its summit, which dominates the moors of the upper Calder Valley and the market town of Todmorden.

The monument is near the villages of Mankinholes and Lumbutts, West Yorkshire, and was designed in 1854 by local architect John Green, and completed in 1856 at the end of the Crimean War.

[2] It was completed in 1815, after the Battle of Waterloo (Napoleonic Wars), but collapsed in 1854 after an earlier lightning strike, and decades of weathering.

[6] There is no vehicular or bicycle access to the monument, although it is reached by many mountain bikers who ride the technical trail following the Pennine Way.

Stoodley Pike Monument can be easily seen on the horizon from many miles away, such as standing in front of Beacon Hill, in Halifax, West Yorkshire or from Roper Lane in Queensbury, Bradford.