High Peak
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 |
- Type: Locality with 92,700 residents
- Description: borough in Derbyshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “High Peak District” and “High Peak, Derbyshire”
- Historically known as: “Dark Peak” and “High Peak Hundred”
- Postal codes: SK22 and SK23
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.
Grindslow Knoll
Peak
Photo: Brian Ward, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grindslow Knoll is a hill in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, England. It is joined to Kinder Scout by a high col though from most angles appears as an independent peak.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Castleton and Hayfield.
Castleton
Photo: sidibousaid, CC BY 2.0.
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.
Hayfield
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hayfield is a village and civil parish in the Borough of High Peak in Derbyshire. It is an attractive stone-built village on the River Sett. Hill-walking, fell-running and mountain-biking are probably the most popular activities for visitors.
High Peak
- Categories: non-metropolitan district and borough in the United Kingdom
- Location: Edale, High Peak District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“High Peak” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Հայ Փիկ”
- Bavarian: “High Peak”
- Bengali: “হাই পিক”
- Catalan: “High Peak”
- Cebuano: “High Peak District (distrito sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Cebuano: “High Peak District”
- Chinese: “High Peak”
- Chinese: “海伊皮克”
- Chinese: “海皮克”
- Chinese: “高峰”
- Dutch: “High Peak”
- Finnish: “High Peak”
- French: “High Peak”
- German: “High Peak”
- Gujarati: “હાઇ પીક”
- Irish: “High Peak”
- Italian: “High Peak”
- Japanese: “ハイ・ピーク (ダービーシャー)”
- Japanese: “ハイ・ピーク”
- Kannada: “ಹೈ ಪೀಕ್”
- Korean: “하이피크”
- Latvian: “Haipīka”
- Lithuanian: “Hai Pykas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “High Peak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “High Peak”
- Norwegian: “High Peak”
- Polish: “High Peak”
- Portuguese: “High Peak”
- Romanian: “High Peak”
- Russian: “Хай-Пик”
- Spanish: “High Peak”
- Swedish: “High Peak District”
- Tamil: “ஹை பீக்”
- Telugu: “కోల్విచ్”
- Urdu: “ہائی پیک، ڈربیشائر”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref High Peak”
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