Large Bronze Age round barrow excavated in 1846 and 1862. There is possible evidence of re-use in the Romano-British period.

Railway largely constructed between 1837 and 1838 and opened in July 1840.

Large Neolithic/early Bronze Age chambered cairn excavated in the 1800s and 1973-1974, with evidence of re-use in the Roman period.

Tramway operated by continuous-rope haulage system between Stanley Footrill Colliery and a coal wharf at Roe Farm, Chaddesden. Opened 1894; closed 1918.

Excavations in 1974 and 1975 indicate medieval (or earlier) settlement to the south and east of the church, while earthworks, now destroyed, suggested settlement to the west also

Four hundred Neolithic/Bronze Age flints and several fragments Romano-British pottery found in the corner of a field to the north of Hillhead; exact field and findspot unknown.

Fieldwalking in 1985 recovered several flint tools, 9 cores and a considerable number of flint flakes and miscellaneous waste. The majority of the material was Mesolithic.

Low concentration of Romano-British and medieval pottery recovered from several adjacent fields in 1993.

Pottery vessel in Derby Museum, published as Anglo-Saxon from Little Chester, but reassessed as probably having an ethnographic origin

All Saints' was built in 1836 as the first Catholic Church in the area.