 The Peak District,
England's first National Park, is a popular tourist area, offering
beautiful and spectacular countyside and scenery and interesting
towns such as Glossop, Buxton, Bakewell, Matlock, Holmfirth and
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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