Stoney Middleton Heritage | Visitor Centre & Village Trails
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Visit the Heritage Centre Experience the history of Stoney Middleton, Eyam and the surrounding area with hundreds of years of history

 Visit The Centre Discover Stoney Middleton Visit the Heritage Centre, follow the trails, and enjoy great food at The Cupola Restaurant in the heart of the Peak District

 Discover Stoney Stoney Middleton Heritage Centre

Discover a village shaped in stone, the history, folklore, village trails and archives, then plan where to eat, stay and explore in the Peak District.

Open Mon - Sun 9am - 5pm

Free Entry

Wheelchair Accessible

Discover the Forgotten Village

 

Stoney Middleton has never been short of stories — only people who knew where to find them.

Shaped by limestone, lead mining, quarrying, bootmaking and generations of determined people, this remarkable Peak District village rewards a closer look. Begin at The Cupola, enjoy good food and the exhibition, explore the landscape and uncover the memories preserved within our extensive online collection.

One village. Four ways to discover it.

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Visit the Heritage Centre

 

Begin your visit at the Stoney Middleton Heritage Centre, housed inside the award winning The Cupola on the site of the historic Lord’s Cupola lead-smelting works. Through the Life in a Gorge exhibition, photographs, films and displays reveal how geology, industry and generations of working people shaped this distinctive Peak District village.

Explore Stoney Middleton & Eyam

 

Step beyond the Heritage Centre and into the landscape where the stories happened. Follow heritage trails through Stoney Middleton and neighbouring Eyam, discovering historic buildings, dramatic limestone scenery, ancient paths and places associated with industry, invention, survival, local legends and village life.

Stoney Middleton Heritage Centre
Stoney Middleton Heritage Centre

History & Heritage Archive

 

Explore the people, places and events that made Stoney Middleton. Our extensive online archive brings together articles, historic photographs, documents, postcards, films, family histories and recorded memories — preserving the village’s past while making its stories accessible to researchers, descendants and curious visitors everywhere.

Award Winning Attraction

 

The Stoney Middleton Heritage centre is an award winning attraction based at The Cupola. We have one multiple awards since opening including awards for accessibility and inclusion from Visit Peak District & Derbyshire, Central England Tourism and Trip Advisor Visitors Choice.

Stoney Middelton Heritage Centre

Getting Here

 

Located on the A623 in the heart of the Peak District at Stonety Middleton with easy access to public transport from Sheffield, Chesterfield, Buxton and Bakewell with ample car parking available.