 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
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