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Stanton by Dale is a village and civil parish in the South East of Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 505.
It lies south of Ilkeston and North of Sandiacre. Since 1974 it has been part of the Erewash Borough. The village is the exact halfway point between the cities of Derby and Nottingham, being 6.9 miles, as the crow flies, from each city.
Earl Stanhope became Lord of the Manor in the eighteenth Century, eventually selling the parish to the Stanton Ironworks Company.
Only workers at the Ironworks, a major local employer which dominated the area for over two centuries, were allowed to live in Stanton owned properties. In later years these houses were all painted 'Stanton Green', a colour still evident in the village today.
Stanton Ironworks became an international company as Stanton & Staveley, was nationalised as part of British Steel Corporation, de-nationalised and sold eventually to the French Saint-Gobain company. Production ceased at the works in 2007. It is commemorated throughout the UK and further afield by the many thousands of manhole covers and concrete street lamp standards bearing the words "Stanton" or "Stanton and Staveley".
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