In the 1086 Domesday Book it is named "Staintone", with 39 households, land and a mill.[2]
The parish church is a Grade II listed building dedicated to Saint Andrew and dating from 1300. It was restored in 1886, and again in 1914 after falling into ruin in the 17th century.[3] The painting of the Agony in the Garden by Charles Edgar Buckeridge was originally in St Margaret's Church, Burton upon Trent.[4]
Stainton le Vale CE School was recognised as a Church of England public elementary school in 1873; it appears to have closed in the summer of 1934.[5]
References
^"Stainton le Vale". Vision of Britain. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
^"Stainton le Vale". Domesday Map. Anna Powell-Smith/University of Hull. Retrieved 7 August 2011.