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On Kinder Scout, Derbyshire

Peak District The Peak District, also and historically known as The Peak, is a mountainous area lying mainly in northern Derbyshire, and filling the whole northern part of that shire. It is a section of the Pennines, and unbroken fells reach beyond the Peak to the southwest (the Staffordshire Moorlands and to the north, in the Yorkshire Pennines). An area of great diversity, the Peak is conventionally split into the northern Dark Peak, where most of the peat moorland is found (hence the name) and whose geology is gritstone, and the southern White Peak, where most of the population lives and where the geology is mainly limestone-based. The rolling Derbyshire Dales are green and richly grazed in the south, from edge of the city of Derby, and rising to the north. The High Peak by contrast is uncompromising fell country, high, steep, wind-blasted, unsullied by roads and unpeopled. (Read more)