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Peak District National Park: The Absolute Essentials

The Peak District National Park features a diverse range of landmarks, from the Baroque architecture of Chatsworth House to the prehistoric stone circles at Arbor Low and Nine Ladies. The landscape is defined by the gritstone plateaus of Kinder Scout and the limestone caverns of Castleton, including the vast Peak Cavern. Engineering highlights include the Ladybower Reservoir Dam with its bellmouth spillways, while historical sites like the 11th-century Peveril Castle and the medieval Eyam Hall offer insight into the region's heritage.

Peak District National Park: The Absolute Essentials – Karta

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Chatsworth House

Chatsworth House is a stately home in the Derbyshire Dales, 4 miles north-east of Bakewell and 9 miles west of Chesterfield, England.

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Peak District National Park

The Peak District is an upland area in England at the southern end of the Pennines.

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Mam Tor

Mam Tor is a 517 m hill near Castleton in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England.

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Peveril Castle

Peveril Castle is a ruined 11th-century castle overlooking the village of Castleton in the English county of Derbyshire.

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Porter Brook

A watercourse featuring historical water-powered industrial sites, including the 16th-century Shepherd Wheel, a restored knife-grinding workshop.

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Ladybower Reservoir Dam

Completed in 1943, this large embankment dam features two unique 'bellmouth' or 'plughole' spillways designed to drain excess water into the River Derwent.

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Howden Reservoir

The Howden Reservoir is a Y-shaped reservoir, the uppermost of the three in the Upper Derwent Valley, England.

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Poole's Cavern

Poole's Cavern or Poole's Hole is a two-million-year-old natural limestone cave on the edge of Buxton in the Peak District, in the county…

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Thor's Cave

Thor's Cave is a natural cavern located at SK09865496 in the Manifold Valley of the White Peak in Staffordshire, England.

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Packhorse Bridge

An 18th-century stone bridge in Ashford-in-the-Water, featuring an attached stone pen historically used to wash sheep in the River Wye before shearing.

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Devil's Arse (Peak Cavern)

The Peak Cavern, also known as the Devil's Arse, is one of the four show caves in Castleton, Derbyshire, England.

Andrew Bone / CC BY 2.0

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Kinder Scout

Kinder Scout is a moorland plateau and National Nature Reserve in the Dark Peak of the Derbyshire Peak District in England.

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Arbor Low

Arbor Low is a well-preserved Neolithic henge in the Derbyshire Peak District, England.

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Nine Ladies Stone Circle

The Nine Ladies is a stone circle located on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire in the English East Midlands.

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Eyam Hall

Eyam Hall is a country house within the civil parish of Eyam, Derbyshire, located to the west of St Lawrence's Church, Eyam.

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