 The Peak District, England's first National Park, is a popular tourist
area, offering beautiful and spectacular countyside & scenery
and interesting towns such as Glossop, Buxton, Bakewell, Matlock,
Holmfirth & Ashbourne. Landscapes in the Peak District
come in two forms, the Dark Peak and the White Peak. The
brooding high moorland tops of the Dark Peak in the north take
their name from the underlying gritstone. Known as millstone
grit from its former use, the millstone is now used to mark out
the Peak Park boundary. The southern limestone hills and dales
of the White Peak are altogether gentler and undulating. The
plateaux have been eroded into deep forested dales populated
by small stone villages and often threaded by walking trails
along former rail routes. Here you will discover the beautiful
valley of the River Wye and the landscape
of the limestone plateaux that is characterised by thousands
of stone walls enclosing the fields. |
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