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• A New Heritage and Visitor Centre

  

    The visitor centre will be a newly constructed building, purpose built to provide the visitors to the village an insight into what makes Stoney Middleton such a remarkable place. The building will be known as ‘The Cupola’, an iconic building taking its appearance from the former lead smelting cupola, ‘The Lord’s Cupola’ which once… Learn more

• The Hauntings ITV investigate

  

  A generation ago Carlswark Cavern was considered a place of evil repute; a place haunted by the ghost of a Scotch pedlar. This according to Clarence Daniel in his book A Peakland Portfolio – he goes on to tell us: The criminals were never proved guilty of their crime, but a great deal of suspicion attached to… Learn more

• Murder at the Moon Inn

  

  The Moon Inn is the last remaining public house in the village of Stoney Middleton. It was home to the brutal murder of a Scottish pedlar during the eighteenth century. The landlord turned a blind eye whilst his murderers took his body away throwing it down nearby Calswalk cavern, where it lay undiscovered for 20years, and according to the locals both the… Learn more

• Lovers Leap

  

  The Lovers Leap is a story of Hannah Baddeley, a lady jilted by the love of her life leapt from the cliff tops in Stoney Middleton. Miraculously she survived with no more than cuts and bruises when her voluminous skirts billowed out and acted like a parachute slowing her fall. The building at the foot… Learn more

• World War one – Stoney Middleton

  

  During the First World War approximately ten million military personnel died.  Most of the deaths were on the battlefields of Northern France and Belgium, but there were many who died closer to home. In 1930 the then Imperial War Graves Commission compiled and published The War Graves Of The British Empire, a register of the… Learn more

• World War Two – Stoney Middleton

  

  World War II was to have a profound effect on the entire world, Stoney Middleton a small village in the picturesque village of Derbyshire would not escape its impact, the village was bombed, it housed a military and prisoner of war camp, and tragically lost four brave young men who gave their lives and are remembered here. We must remember… Learn more

• Lost love of Rowland Torre and Emmott Sydall

  

  A story of heartbreak concerning Emmott Sydall and Rowland Torre, separated from one another when the village of Eyam quarantined itself during an outbreak of the Plague, meeting daily at a distance they would shout to eachother until one day when all fell silent. Cucklett Delf is a picturesque dale between the village of Eyam and Stoney Middleton and represents… Learn more

• Public houses of the village

  

  The village is notable for the number of public houses. Twelve have been recorded over the last 200 years, but not all necessarily at the same time. Popularity can possibly be explained by the industrialisation of the village at this time. Workers from the mines, quarries as well as numerous boot factories would undoubtedly have been… Learn more

• Prisoner of War Camp

  

  In 1940 the world was at war, an act which was to have a profound effect on hundreds of thousands of people the world over. Stoney Middleton, a remote village in Derbyshire was to be no different. The village was an industrial village centred on limestone quarrying, the stone was used directly for construction and… Learn more

• The Boundary Stone

  

  The Boundary Stone acted as a marker separating the residents of the plague affected village of Eyam from the non-affected villagers of Stoney Middleton in 1665. It is here during the plague that money soaked in vinegar (believed to kill the infection) was placed by the villagers of Eyam in exchange for food and medical… Learn more

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