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Around the Peak District

The Peak District has long been renowned as a place of beauty, becoming
the country’s first national park in 1951. Despite being in the heart
of industrialized England, the Peak area’s villages and towns have Alshop
Alshop
Derwent
a remote feel and retain an individuality often lost elsewhere – Kinder Scout High P Derwent Hollow
High P eakeak
Moor
Moor
Kinder Scout
Hollow
636m
within minutes of parking the car, visitors can be exploring 636m Edale Moor Meadows Hallam
Meadows
Edale Moor
Hallam
Head
Noe
secluded valleys, or striding up over hills with fabulous views. ED EDALEALE Noe Head
Fulwood
The Peak District divides in two, between the limestone Fulwood Greystones
Greystones
Hallam
Chinley Head
Ecclesall
White Peak to the south, where water has scooped out Chinley Head Bar Barberber CASTLETON Hope Bamford Stanage Edge Hallam Ecclesall
Booth
Booth
Moorss
Bamford
Moor
CASTLETON Hope
the soft rock into deep caves and sheltered valleys, Chinley Chapel Thornhill Whiteley
Whiteley
Thornhill
Chinley
Chapel
Wood
Wood
Milton
Stanage Edge
Winnats
and the Dark Peak north of Buxton, where the Milton Slackhall Winnats Abbeydale
Slackhall
Pass
Pass
Abbeydale
HATHERSAGE
Bradwell
harder millstone grit has created a dramatic Tunstead Sparrowpit Bradwell HATHERSAGE Dore
Tunstead
Sparrowpit
Dore
Milton
Milton
Old Moor
Chapel-en-en-
Bradway
landscape of ridges and windswept moorland. Chapel- Old Moor Abney Totley Bradway
Abney
Totley
le-Frithrith
le-F
Peak Forest
Peak Forest
Fernilee Great Nether Padley Owler
Great
Fernilee
Owler
Nether Padley
Hucklow
Bretton
Dove Holes
Combs Dove Holes Hucklow Bretton Grindleford Bar Bar
Combs
Grindleford
DERBYSHIRE
DERBYSHIRE
Combs
Combs EYAM Froggatt
EYAM
Froggatt
Wheston
Big
Moss
Moss Wheston Big
Litton
Tideswell
Tideswell Litton Moor
Moor
Wormhill
Wormhill
Wardlow
Curbar
Calver
BUXTON
BUXTON Fairfield Wardlow Calver Curbar
Fairfield
Great
Wye
Wye
Baslow
Blackwell
Hassop
Burbage
Burbage Blackwell Priestcliffe Great Hassop Baslow
Longstone
Longstone
Priestcliffe
Little
King Sterndale Little
King Sterndale
Longstone Pilsley
Pilsley
Longstone
Harpurhill
Harpurhill
Taddington
CHATSWORTH
Chelmorton Taddington Ashford CHATSWORTH
Chelmorton
Ashford
Edensor
P P eakeak Edensor East
East
Flagg
BAKEWELL
Flagg BAKEWELL Derwent Derwent Moor
Moor
Distr ictict
Earl Earl Distr Beeley
Beeley
Sterndale
Sterndale
HADDON HALL
Monyash
Monyash HADDON HALL
Hollinsclough Oveve Orr
Hollinsclough
O
Overver
National
National Haddon Rowsley
Rowsley
Haddon
Haddon
Haddon
Longnor
Longnor Stanton
Stanton
Pa r kr k
Youlgreave in-Peak
Fawfieldhead Pa Youlgreave in-Peak
Fawfieldhead
Two Dales
Pilsbury Middleton Two Dales
Pilsbury
Middleton
Darley
Newton Darley
Newton
Bridge
Upper
Sheen
Birchover
Above Typical Peak District scenery on the lovely road to Edale, see p173 Sheen Birchover Bridge Upper
Hackney
Hackney
Wensley
Wensley
Winster
Friden
Friden Winster
Matlock
Hartington Matlock
Hartington
Hulme End
Hulme End Biggin Tansley
Tansley
Biggin
Upper
Upper
ACTIVITIES Elkstone Warslow Pikehall MATLOCK BATH
Warslow
Pikehall
MATLOCK BATH
Elkstone
ST Lea Lea
STAFFORDSHIREAFFORDSHIRE
Cycle along the beautiful Tissington Trail from Ashbourne Aldwark Cromford
Aldwark
Cromford
Holloway
Butterton Holloway
Butterton
Alstonefield Alsop en
Alsop en
Walk through amazing Peak District scenery at Ilam Wetton Alstonefield le Dale Middleton
Wetton
Middleton
le Dale
Onecote
Onecote Brassington
Brassington
Take the waters at the handsome spa town of Buxton Stanshope Parwich Wirksworth
Wirksworth
Parwich
Stanshope
Grindon
Ford Grindon Carsington
Ford
Carsington
Millers
Hike the Pennine Way, or at least part of it, from Edale Manifold Millers
Green
Bradbourne
Tissington
Tissington Bradbourne Green
Dove
Dove
Manifold
Waterfall
Carsington
Climb down into Castleton’s watery caverns to see the Winkhill Waterfall ILAM AND Carsington
ILAM AND
Winkhill
Water
Water
Thorpe
DOVEDALE
area’s unique Blue John stone DOVEDALE Thorpe Hognaston
Hognaston
Kniveton
Calton
Kirk Ireton
Cauldon
Get lost in the maze at Chatsworth and marvel at the sheer Cauldon Calton Kniveton Kirk Ireton
Biggin
grandeur of the country house and gardens Mapleton Biggin
Mapleton
Swinscoe
Swinscoe
Hulland
Hulland
Feast on an original Bakewell Pudding and other goodies ASHBOURNE
ASHBOURNE
on a stroll around Bakewell’s shops and markets Stanton
Stanton
Bradley
Ramshorn
Ramshorn Mayfield Bradley
Mayfield
Travel back in time to the Middle Ages at Haddon Hall Wootton
Wootton
Clifton
Clifton
Osmaston
Osmaston
Look down on the world from the cable car at Matlock Bath
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