Earl Sterndale

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Earl Sterndale
Derbyshire

From the southwest
Location
Grid reference: SK090670
Location: 53°12’0"N, 1°51’58"W
Data
Post town: Buxton
Postcode: SK17
Dialling code: 01298
Local Government
Council: Derbyshire Dales
Parliamentary
constituency:
Derbyshire Dales

Earl Sterndale is a village in the Upper Dove Valley in the Peak District, in Derbyshire. It stands near the River Dove, five miles south of Buxton, and eight miles west of Bakewell, at 1,100 feet above sea level.

The farms surrounding the village were mediæval monastic granges in the care of the monks of Basingwerk Abbey, a monastery in Flintshire.

The village church, St Michael and All Angels, was built in 1828 on the site of an ancient chapel, and contains a Saxon font. It was substantially destroyed in 1941, when it was mistakenly bombed; the only church in Derbyshire to be hit by a German bomb. The church was restored in 1952.

Earl Sterndale is popular with walkers, as it stands close to the distinctive peaks of Chrome Hill and Parkhouse Hill, and is within walking distance of Hartington and the 'Gateway to Dovedale'.

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