Jarrold Pathfinder 16 - Peak District
ISBN: 0-7117-0464-3
There are two popular misconceptions about the Peak District: one that it is a region of peaks, and secondly that it wholly within in Derbyshire. Yet its highest points, Kinder Scout and Bleaklow, although over 2000 ft (610m), are not peak-like. (It is thought that the name comes from the old English word peac, meaning hill.) And, although most of the region lies in Derbyshire, a substantial proportion of it spills over into neighbouring Staffordshire, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.
The landscape varies dramatically, with plenty of places of interest such as Chatsworth House near Bakewell, the plague village of Eyam, the Victorian spa town of Matlock Bath, historic Lyme Park and Holmfirth setting for TV's Last of the Summer Wine.
This guide contains routes through the White Peak area of the south, with pastoral countryside criss-crossed by drystone walling and scattered with idyllic villages such as Ashford in the Water, and more challenging walks in the rugged Dark Peak of the north, characterised by distinctive gritstone edges (including the Roaches, Derwent and Curbar edges).
There are two popular misconceptions about the Peak District: one that it is a region of peaks, and secondly that it wholly within in Derbyshire. Yet its highest points, Kinder Scout and Bleaklow, although over 2000 ft (610m), are not peak-like. (It is thought that the name comes from the old English word peac, meaning hill.) And, although most of the region lies in Derbyshire, a substantial proportion of it spills over into neighbouring Staffordshire, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.
The landscape varies dramatically, with plenty of places of interest such as Chatsworth House near Bakewell, the plague village of Eyam, the Victorian spa town of Matlock Bath, historic Lyme Park and Holmfirth setting for TV's Last of the Summer Wine.
This guide contains routes through the White Peak area of the south, with pastoral countryside criss-crossed by drystone walling and scattered with idyllic villages such as Ashford in the Water, and more challenging walks in the rugged Dark Peak of the north, characterised by distinctive gritstone edges (including the Roaches, Derwent and Curbar edges).