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Longstone lies under Longstone Edge, a gritstone ridge over three miles long rising to nearly 1300 feet at Bleaklow, where human skeletons have been found in a barrow.
A splendid row of 14 great elms by the roadside adds to its charm, and on the small green is the old cross on its steps.
Facing the manor house and the Crispin Inn (with its sign of the cobbler's saint) is the attractive 18th century red-brick Hall, reached by an avenue of fine elms and lawn, keeping still a ball-crowned gable of the older home of the Wrights who lived here most of the time from the 14th century onward.
The church, in company with two fine old yews, comes from the mediaeval centuries. The south doorway and the north aisle windows are of the 13th century; the west tower, the priest's doorway, and the nave arcades are a century younger. The church's glory is in its splendid 15th century roofs with fine moulded beams, embattled cornices,and bosses of flowers and foliage and arms, one showing a man holding the cover of a tub from which a weird figure has just come out.
An old oak screen with a deep cornice shuts off the end of an aisle which was once the family pew of the Eyres. On the wall is an engraved copper plate of 1624 with the portraits of Rowland Eyre and his wife, kneeling as if in a chapel with a window at each side.
There is a tribute here to a hero of Great Longstone, Dr Edward Buxton, who early last century, as an old man of 73, sacrificed himself to tend the villagers during an outbreak of typhus.
Though the fever visited every house but one, no-one died.
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