 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. Please go here for bed
and breakfast in the Peak District & Peak
District hotels
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For
accommodation in areas around Peak District see: Yorkshire
Dales, Fylde Coast,
Yorkshire Wolds, Lincolnshire,
Cheshire & Central
England
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