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Earl Sterndale

At the less well-known northern end of Dove Valley, Earl Sterndale is close to the limestone peaks of Hitter Hill and High Wheeldon, where there is Fox Hole Cave, which has been a shelter for people since Stone Age times. Over 1,100 feet above sea level, it is surrounded by lovely farmland. A number of the farmsteads are called ‘granges’, a relic of the Middle Ages when the granges were where monks of the local Abbey lived. The Parish Church of St Michael, built in the early 19th century, was the only church in Derbyshire to suffer a direct hit from a Second World War bomb. It was refurbished and restored in 1952, and retains a Saxon font.

The village inn, the Quiet Woman, has a sign showing a headless woman, with the words ‘Soft words turneth away wrath’. It is supposedly of a previous landlord’s nagging wife, known as ‘Chattering Charteris’, whose husband cut off her head.

Available Guidebooks for this region:

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The Hidden Places of the Peak District and Derbyshire

This guidebook offers the reader places to stay, eat and drink as well as interesting places to visit and many main heritage sites. You can read more here.

The Hidden Places of England

This national guidebook covers every county in England offering places to stay, visit, eat and drink as well as places to visit. You can read more here.

The Country Living Guide to the Heart of England

This guidebook covers Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire offering places to stay, visit, eat and drink as well as places to shop. You can read more here.

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