Peak District is located in Central England and mostly falls within the northern Derbyshire county. Known for its mind blowing limestone valleys and pleatues along with gritstone mountains, Peak District can definitely become your next tourist destination.
Roughly divided into the Dark Peak (Northern regions) and White Peak (South and Central regions), Peak District also attracts many visitors due to its close proximity to places like Manchester, Derby and Sheffield.
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1. Make a trip to Margery Hill[1]. This hill is over 1,000 feet tall and located near the Howden Moors in South Yorkshire. Managed by England's National Trust for Places of Historic Interest as part of their High Peak Estate program, Margery Hill is an ideal tourist place to visit and spend some time.
Margery Hill is the highest marked point within the boundaries of Sheffield. The land rises slightly to 548 metres (1,798 ft) about 0.9 miles (1.5 km) to the south, near High Stones.[1]
2. Read Seven Wonders of the Peak[2]. De Mirabilibus Pecci: Being The Wonders of the Peak in Darby-shire is a book written by the 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes describing these seven "wonders" or places of interest in Dark Peak.
Thomas Hobbes worked for the Dukes of Devonshire at Chatsworth House, as tutor and secretary. After touring the High Peak in 1626, Hobbes published his 84-page Latin poem De Mirabilibus Pecci in 1636. It was published with an English translation in 1676 in which he recounted, "Of the High Peak are seven wonders writ. Two fonts, two caves. One pallace, mount and pit.".[2]
3. Make a trip to Buxton[3]. Buxton is a small spa town located in the Borough of High Peak. Situated atop the hill at around 1,000 feet high, it has the privilege of being England's highest market town!
Major sight seeing places include Poole's Cavern, a limestone cavern, St Ann's Well, fed by a geothermal spring bottled by Buxton Mineral Water Company, and Georgian buildings round John Carr's restored Buxton Crescent, including Buxton Baths[2]. St. Ann's Well, of course, has a notable reference in Thomas Hobbes' Seven Wonders book too.
4. Behold the naturally warm spring waters at St Ann's Well in Buxton[4]! St Ann's is a spring water well and a shrine since medieval times situated south of The Slopes in Buxton. The well was declared one of the Seven Wonders of the Peak by the philosopher Thomas Hobbes in his 1636 book De Mirabilibus Pecci: Being The Wonders of the Peak in Darby-shire[4].
5. Make a visit to the Tideswell village[5]. Tideswell is a village and civil parish situated in Peak District and about 10 kilometers east of Buxton.
Tideswell's history can be traced all the way back to middle ages! The Tideswell lead miners were renowned for their strength and were much prized by the military authorities. The Domesday Book of 1086 lists TIDESUUELLE as the King's land in the charge of William Peverel with fewer than five households.[5]
Other notable places in Tildeswell worth seeing are the 14th century Parish Church, the Church of St John the Baptist, Tideswell Theatre and the Taste Tideswell marketplace.
6. Make a trip to Poole's Cavern Limestone Cave[6]. Poole's Cavern is an ancient (~2 million+ years old) natural limestone cave located near the edge of Buxton in Peak district.
The name derives from an outlaw, Poole, who reputedly used the cave as a lair and a base to rob travellers in the fifteenth century. Archeological explorations in 1981 and 1983 have suggested that the cave was occupied from the Bronze Age. Some of the finds have been interpreted as suggesting that one of the chambers was used for religious purposes by Romano-Britons; an alternative explanation is that the cave was a metal-workers' workshop.[6]
There is a visitor centre in Cavern Limestone including a cafe and shop.
7. Visit the "Devil's Arse" (Peak Cavern)[7]. Also known as the "Devil's Arse", Peak Cavern is one of the four show caves in Castleton, Derbyshire, England. Peakshole Water flows through and out of the cave, which has the largest cave entrance in Britain.[7]
A prominent feature of Peak Cavern is that unlike other caves in Peak District, its almost entirely natural. The only artificial part of the cave was blasted to bypass a low tunnel that was only accessible by lying down on a boat.[7]
Historically the cave was known as the Devil's Arse, under which name it is described in William Camden's Britannia of 1586. The cavern was declared to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Peak by philosopher Thomas Hobbes in his 1636 book De Mirabilibus Pecci: Being The Wonders of the Peak in Darby-shire, Commonly called The Devil's Arse of Peak.[7]
8. Invoke that Royal feel by visiting the Chatsworth House[8]. Located about 10 kilometers west of Chesterfield, Chatsworth House is a stately home in the Derbyshire Dales.
The house holds major collections of paintings, furniture, Old Master drawings, neoclassical sculptures and books. Chosen several times as Britain's favourite country house, it is a Grade I listed property from the 18th century, altered in the 19th.[8]
9. Give in to peace and tranquility at the Mam Tor hills[9]. Mam Tor is a hill located near Castleton in the High Peak of Derbyshire. It literally means "mother hill" and named as such because frequent landslips on its eastern face have resulted in a multitude of "mini-hills" beneath it.[9]
In 1979, the continual battle to maintain the A625 road (Sheffield to Chapel en le Frith) on the crumbling eastern side of the hill was lost when the road officially closed as a through-route, with the Fox House to Castleton section of the road being re-designated as the A6187.[9]
10. Roam around at the Eldon hill[10]. Eldon Hill is located in the midst of Peak District National Park in Derbyshire county and is about 4 kilometers south west of Castleton village.
It is a limestone hill whose pastureland is used for rough grazing, although a large proportion has been lost to limestone quarrying. It lies within the Castleton Site of Special Scientific Interest.[10]
Links:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Hill
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Peak
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buxton
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Ann%27s_Well_(Buxton)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tideswell
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poole%27s_Cavern
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_Cavern
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatsworth_House
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mam_Tor
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldon_Hill
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