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Portal:Peak District

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The Peak District is an upland area in England, most of which lies in northern Derbyshire but also includes parts of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire and Yorkshire.

An area of great diversity, it is split into the northern Dark Peak, where most of the moorland is found and whose geology is gritstone, and the southern White Peak, where most of the population lives and whose geology is mainly limestone.

The Peak District National Park became the first national park in the United Kingdom in 1951. With its proximity to the cities of Manchester and Sheffield and easy access by road and rail, it attracts millions of visitors every year.

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Chatsworth House is a stately home in Derbyshire, England. It is in the Derbyshire Dales, about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north-east of Bakewell and 9 miles (14 km) west of Chesterfield (SK260700). It is the seat of the Duke of Devonshire and has been home to the Cavendish family since 1549.

Standing on the east bank of the River Derwent, Chatsworth looks across to the low hills that divide the Derwent and Wye valleys. The house, set in expansive parkland and backed by wooded, rocky hills rising to heather moorland, contains a unique collection of priceless paintings, furniture, Old Master drawings, neoclassical sculptures, books and other artefacts. Chatsworth has been selected as the United Kingdom's favourite country house several times.

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Geography

Dark Peak · White Peak · Macclesfield Forest

Mountains, hills and crags: List · Axe Edge Moor · Back Tor · Birchen Edge · Black Chew Head · Black Hill · Black Rocks · Bleaklow · Bosley Minn · Cheeks Hill · Chrome Hill · The Cloud · Croker Hill · Crook Hill · Derwent Edge · Eccles Pike · Eldon Hill · Emlin · Froggatt Edge · Gardom's Edge · Great Ridge · Grindslow Knoll · Gun · Harridge Pike · Hen Cloud · Higger Tor · Higher Shelf Stones · High Neb · High Stones · High Wheeldon · Hollins Cross · Kinder Scout · Lantern Pike · Longstone Edge · Lord's Seat · Lose Hill · Mam Tor · Margery Hill · Merryton Low · Minninglow · Parkhouse Hill · The Roaches · Robin Hood's Stride · Rushup Edge · Shining Tor · Shutlingsloe · Stanage Edge · Stanage Pole · Tegg's Nose · Thor's Cave · Wharncliffe Crags · Wetton Hill · Wild Bank · Win Hill · Windgather Rocks · Wolfscote Hill

Lakes and reservoirs: Agden Reservoir · Arnfield Reservoir · Bottoms Reservoir · Carsington Water · Chew Reservoir · Dale Dike Reservoir · Damflask Reservoir · Derwent Reservoir · Dovestone Reservoir · Errwood Reservoir · Fernilee Reservoir · Greenfield Reservoir · Hollingworth Reservoir · Howden Reservoir · Hurst Reservoir · Ladybower Reservoir · Lamaload Reservoir · Langsett Reservoir · Longdendale Chain · Mossy Lea Reservoir · Rhodeswood Reservoir · Rivelin Dams · Rudyard Lake · Strines Reservoir · Swineshaw Reservoir · Tittesworth Reservoir · Toddbrook Reservoir · Torside Reservoir · Trentabank Reservoir · Valehouse Reservoir · Woodhead Reservoir · Yeoman Hey Reservoir

Rivers: Alport · Ashop · Bradford · Churnet · Dane · Dean · Derwent ·Dove · Etherow · Goyt · Hamps · Holme · Kinder · Lathkill · Little Don · Loxley · Manifold · Noe · Peakshole Water · Rivelin · Sett · Westend · Wye

Valleys and gorges: Bradfield Dale · Cave Dale · Chew Valley · Dovedale · Great Rocks Dale · Hope Valley · Longdendale · Millers Dale · Monsal Dale · Lud's Church · Padley Gorge · Upper Derwent Valley · Upper Goyt Valley · Via Gellia

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Towns and villages

Towns: Ashbourne · Bakewell · Buxton · Castleton · Chapel-en-le-Frith · Glossop · Hathersage · Leek · Macclesfield · Matlock · New Mills · Wirksworth

Villages: Abney · Aldwark · Alsop en le Dale · Alstonefield · Alton · Ashford-in-the-Water · Ballidon · Bamford · Baslow · Beeley · Biggin · Birchover · Blore · Bollington · Bolsterstone · Bonsall · Bradbourne · Bradwell, Derbyshire· Brassington · Bretton · Butterton · Calver · Carsington · Cheddleton · Chelmorton · Chinley · Combs · Cressbrook · Cromford · Crowdecote · Crowden · Curbar · Darley Dale · Denstone · Dove Holes · Dunford Bridge · Earl Sterndale · Ecton · Edale · Edensor · Elkstone · Elton · Eyam · Fenny Bentley · Flagg · Flash · Foolow · Froggatt · Grangemill · Great Hucklow · Grindleford · Grindon · Hadfield · Hartington · Hassop · Hayfield · Hognaston · Hollinsclough · Holme · Holmesfield · Hope · Hope Valley · Hopton · Hulland · Hulme End · Ible · Idridgehay · Ilam · Ipstones · Kettleshulme · King Sterndale · Kniveton · Langsett · Little Hucklow · Litton · Longnor · Great Longstone, Little Longstone · Macclesfield Forest · Marsden · Mayfield · Middleton-by-Wirksworth · Middleton-by-Youlgreave · Midhopestones · Milldale · Millers Dale · Monyash · Oakamoor · Onecote · Over Haddon · Padfield · Parwich · Peak Dale · Peak Forest · Pikehall · Pilsley · Pott Shrigley · Rainow · Rowarth · Rowsley · Rudyard · Sheldon · Sparrowpit · Stanton in Peak · Stoney Middleton · Taddington · Thorpe · Tideswell · Tintwistle · Tissington · Upper Hulme · Wardlow · Warslow · Waterhouses · Wensley · Wetton · Whaley Bridge · Wildboarclough · Wincle · Winster · Wormhill · Youlgreave

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Architecture

Churches: St Oswald's, Ashbourne · All Saints, Bakewell · St Nicholas', Bradfield · St Michael and All Angels, Hathersage · Holy Cross, Ilam · St John's, Tideswell · All Saints, Youlgreave

Country houses and stately homes: Buxton Opera House · Chatsworth House · Errwood Hall · Haddon Hall · Hardwick Hall

Industrial structures: Cromford Wharf · Derwent Valley Mills · Masson Mill · Mottram Tunnel · Odin Mine

Other notable buildings and castles: Buxton Opera House · Devonshire Royal Hospital · Peveril Castle · Solomon's Temple, Buxton

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Countryside near Dark Peak

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History

General	History of the Peak District
Neolithic	Arbor Low The Bull Ring
Bronze Age	Nine Ladies
Iron Age	Mam Tor
Pre-Roman/Roman era	Brigantes
Anglo-Saxon era	Pecsaetan Mercia
Medieval period	Lead mining Odin Mine Peak District Lead Mining Museum
Modern period	Kinder trespass of 1932