England · National park
Peak District National Park
Britain's first national park, between Manchester and Sheffield: the gritstone edges and bogs of the Dark Peak, the limestone dales of the White Peak.
The Peak District was the first national park, in 1951, won by the mass trespass on Kinder Scout nineteen years earlier. It is two parks in one. The Dark Peak to the north is moorland and gritstone: Kinder, Bleaklow, the edges above Hathersage, and the start of the Pennine Way. The White Peak to the south is limestone: Dovedale, Lathkill Dale, Monsal Dale, and the villages between them.
Half the population of England lives within an hour of it. Edale, Castleton, Hathersage and Bakewell are the bases, and most of it can be reached by train from Manchester or Sheffield.
- Highest point
- Kinder Scout, 636 m
- Area
- 1,437 km²
- Designated
- 1951
- Walks mapped
- 14
- TRXO regions
- Peak District
14 walks
