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The Peak District the Peak © Lonely Planet 151 THE PEAK DISTRICT The Peak District The first thing you notice about the Peak District – despite its name – is a distinct lack of pointed mountain tops. The word ‘peak’ actually comes from peac, an Old English term for any mound or hill, and while the area has very few soaring summits there are indeed plenty of hills, making the Peak District one of the most popular walking areas in northern England. And deservedly so: access is easy, facilities are good and there’s a huge choice of routes of all lengths and standards through a variety of landscapes. Much of the area is contained within the Peak District National Park – Britain’s oldest and largest park – divided by geology into two distinct sections. The Dark Peak in the north is mostly high, wild, rolling moorland covered in rough grass, heather or peat bog, sliced by gullies known as ‘groughs’ and dotted with rocky outcrops of grey gritstone (a hard, coarse-grained sandstone), many eroded by the weather into unusual shapes. In sharp contrast, the White Peak in the south is a lower, ‘friendlier’ and less-imposing landscape of pale limestone and fertile farmland, with tranquil grassy dales and wooded valleys running between the pasture-covered hills. In this chapter we describe two routes, one in the Dark Peak and one in the White Peak, as top-class samples of what the area has to offer. Use them as tasters, then go on to explore for yourself. Some pointers for further walks are given on p163 , but wherever you go in the Peak, you won’t be disappointed. HIGHLIGHTS Gazing at views on both sides from the ridge near Hollins Cross ( p157 ) on the Edale Skyline Enjoying the White Peak landscape of neat fields and dry-stone walls on the Limestone Way ( p158 ) Following the idyllic river past the ancient village of Youlgreave ( p162 ) Avoiding the peat bogs and striding through the heather on the Kinder Plateau ( p157 ), gateway to the Pennines 152 THE PEAK DISTRICT lonelyplanet.com The Peak District 0 8 km The Peak District 0 4 miles The Peak District - Maps Huddersfield 1 The Edale Skyline p156 2 The Limestone Way p161 Moss THE PEAK DISTRICT A629 Moor A62 Kirkburton Close Moor K I R K L E E S O L D H A M Holmfirth A62 A635 A616 M1 A6024 B A R N S L E Y T A M E S I D E A628 Crowden Torside A616 Reservoir The Manchester Pennine Peak District Way National Park M67 Howden Glossop Reservoir A6102 Snake Pass Derwent A57 Reservoir A626 A624 Kinder 1 Scout Fairholmes S T O C K P O R T 2 (636m) Ladybower A57 Reservoir Hayfield Edale Sheffield S H E F F I E L D A6 New Mills Barber Booth Hope Bamford Mam Tor A625 (517m) Castleton A625 Hathersage D E R B Y S H I R E Bradwell Chapel-en- le-Frith River A623 Grindleford The Limestone A625 Eyam C H E S H I R E W ay A621 A6 To Macclesfield Miller's Dale Derwent A623 Buxton Baslow A537 To Dowlow A619 Chesterfield A515 Chatsworth Taddington Bakewell Flagg Sheldon A54 Monyash Over Rowsley The Haddon Limes Gradbach tone Youlgreave Parsley A6 Peak District Hay Arbor River Way Low National Park A632 Elton Birchover Rudyard Winster Reservoir Hartington Matlock S T A F F O R D S H I R E Dove Heathcote A615 Matlock Bath A523 A53 Bonsall To Derby Cromford Leek To Ashbourne Middleton.
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