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Earl Sterndale is surrounded by a wonderful array of hills, which fill the horizon with the wild scenery of the limestone country of the Peak. Keeping watch above are Hitter Hill and Aldery Cliff, and High Wheeldon, a hill given to the nation as a memorial to the men of the Staffordshire and Derbyshire regiments who fell in World War 11.
An old inn, the Silent Woman (i.e. one without her head) stands by the green. This pub was, alegedly, named after the wife of one of the landlords. She had her head cut off for being too talkative and now the Inn bears the sign of a headless woman with the message 'Soft words turneth away wrath'.
The 19th century church, on the site of an ancient chapel, shelters a crudely shaped font, said to be Saxon.
Overlooking the Dove to the west are the curiously shaped cones of Parkhouse Hill and Chrome Hill, considered by many to be the only true mountains in shape and appearance in the Peak District and above the head of the valley is the long moorland of Axe Edge, rising over 1800 feet above sea-level.
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