Alstonfield or Alstonefield, a village, a township, and a parish on the NE border of Staffordshire, contiguous to Derbyshire. The village stands on the river Dove, 7 miles NNW of Ashbourne station on the North Staffordshire railway, and has a post office under Ashbourne; telegraph office, Hartington. The township contains the hamlets of Stanshope, Mill Dale, Hope and Narrowdale. Acreage, 2938; population of the civil parish, 476; of the ecclesiastical, 522. The parish contains also the townships of Heathilee, Quarnford, Hollingsclough, Longnor, Fawfieldhead, and Warslow and Elkstone. The scenery is wild and romantic; the neighbouring streams afford good sport to anglers, and it is recorded that Isaak Walton and his friend Cotton fished here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £305. The church is a beautiful structure, with a pinnacled tower, mainly in the Late Tudor style, but with remains belonging to earlier styles; it contains a finely carved oaken pulpit. In the churchyard is an ancient stone font, and a stone coffin. The restoration of the church extended from 1875 to 1886. Quarnford, Longnor, and Warslow and Elkstone are separate benefices.