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    The Peak District is an upland area in central-northern England, at the southern end of the Pennines. Mostly in Derbyshire, it extends into Cheshire,...
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    High Peak is a local government district with borough status in Derbyshire, England, covering a high moorland plateau in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District...
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    the Peak District National Park. The 11 National Character Areas found within Derbyshire are: Dark Peak White Peak South West Peak Derbyshire Peak Fringe...
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    south through the North Pennines, Yorkshire Dales, South Pennines, and Peak District to end near the valley of the River Trent. The Border Moors and Cheviot...
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    Victoria Peak is a hill on the western half of Hong Kong Island. It is also known as Mount Austin, and locally as The Peak only generally. With an elevation...
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    This is a list of the hills of the Peak District of England. Most lie within the Peak District National Park, but others lie outside its borders. The...
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    accessible by lying down on a boat. The cave system is the largest in the Peak District, and the main entrance is the largest cave entrance in Britain. Until...
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  • Peak car Peak coal Peak copper Peak farmland Peak gas Peak gold Peak minerals Peak phosphorus Peak uranium Peak water Peak wheat Peak wood Visor, a part...
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    Previously, all but the Peak District and the Lake District were governed by county councils. The Peak District and the Lake District, the first two national...
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  • Rock climbing is a popular activity in the Peak District; particularly on edges such as Stanage or Froggatt. Generally the climbing style is free climbing...
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    Leicester, Loughborough, Derby and Matlock before passing through the Peak District to Bakewell, Buxton, Stockport, Manchester, Salford, Chorley, Preston...
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    in the Lake District of Cumbria. This was one of the first national parks to be established in the United Kingdom, in 1951. The highest peak is Scafell...
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    stretches for 268 miles (431 km) from Edale, in the northern Derbyshire Peak District, north through the Yorkshire Dales and Northumberland National Park...
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  • Peak Practice was a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who...
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    the Peak Tram reopened on 27 August 2022. The Peak Tram's route from Central district to Victoria Peak covers a distance of about 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi)...
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    Kinder Scout (category Mountains and hills of the Peak District)
    Dark Peak of the Derbyshire Peak District in England. Part of the moor, at 636 metres (2,087 ft) above sea level, is the highest point in the Peak District...
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    Yorkshire is in the South Pennines, and contains a small part of the Peak District National Park. It is characterised by steep valleys and is the source...
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    edge of the Pennines, and the west of the county contains part of the Peak District National Park. The River Don rises in these hills, and flows through...
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    Peak District Lead Mining Museum is located at Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, England. The Peak District Mining Museum is operated as charity by the Peak District...
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    Cheshire (section District)
    landscape rises to the Pennines, where the county contains part of the Peak District. The River Mersey runs through the north of Cheshire before broadening...
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    traverse the Peak District. Several plans were suspended and a proposal to link the two cities with a tunnelled scheme underneath the Peak District did not...
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    of Stocksbridge and the larger village of Chapeltown and part of the Peak District. It has a population of 566,242 (2022), making it technically the third...
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    enforcement notice in August 2023, but took no action, causing the Peak District National Park Authority to forcibly remove the structures at the site...
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    Black Hill, in the Peak District, is the highest hill in West Yorkshire, England. Its summit rises to an elevation of 582 m (1,909 ft) above sea level...
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    hills and the Pennine moorland between. The Yorkshire Dales and the Peak District are both in close proximity. The City of Bradford has architecture designated...
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    Windgather Rocks (category Mountains and hills of the Peak District)
    gritstone crag on the Derbyshire–Cheshire border in England. It is in the Peak District National Park and is a popular site for learning the rudiments of rock...
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    southern end of the Pennines is in the north, containing part of the Peak District National Park, while the Cannock Chase AONB and part of the National...
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    in the Peak District". Journal of Zoology. 165 (4): 513. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1971.tb02203.x. "Wallabies and yaks". The Roaches Peak District, Roaches...
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  • Eight-thousanders. (Some people have claimed there are six more 8,000m peaks in Nepal, making for a total of 20.) All are in the two highest mountain...
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    constituency is in north west Derbyshire and based in the heart of the Peak District, including the towns of Buxton, Glossop and New Mills. Since the 1966...
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