High Peak District
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 National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kinder Scout and Edale railway station.
Kinder Scout
Peak
Photo: Dave Dunford, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kinder Scout is a moorland plateau and National Nature Reserve in the Dark Peak of the Derbyshire Peak District in England. Part of the moor, at 636 metres above sea level, is the highest point in the Peak District, in Derbyshire and the East Midlands.
Edale railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Edale railway station serves the rural village of Edale in the Derbyshire Peak District, in England. It is located 20 miles west of Sheffield and 22 miles east of Manchester Piccadilly.
Mam Tor
Peak
Mam Tor is a 517 m hill near Castleton in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England. Its name means "mother hill", so called because frequent landslips on its eastern face have resulted in a multitude of "mini-hills" beneath it.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Edale and Castleton.
Edale
Photo: sidibousaid, CC BY 2.0.
Edale is in Derbyshire. Edale is the name of the valley of the River Noe and the name used by most people for Grindsbrook Booth, the settlement where the only train station in the valley is located.
Castleton
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Castleton is a small town in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire. Its two main claims to fame are the 12th-century Peveril Castle and a series of four show caves, where minerals including Blue John, unique to this area, have been mined.
High Peak District
- Type: Locality with 91,700 residents
- Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.3673° or 53° 22′ 2″ northLongitude
-1.8425° or 1° 50′ 33″ westPopulation
91,700Elevation
1,070 feet (326 metres)Open location code
9C5W9584+WXGeoNames ID
7290672
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