Peak District

The Peak District National Park ( a Peak District National Park ) is a national park in northern England. A distinction between the northern Dark Peak, which includes most of the uninhabited Moore and the southern White Peak, where most settlements are to be found. The Dark Peak is part of the counties of Greater Manchester and Yorkshire, while the White Peak areas of Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Cheshire covers. The White Peak consists largely of grasslands that are used for breeding of sheep. Dry riverbeds and caves ( for example, the Peak Cavern at Castleton in Derbyshire ) are also to be found.

Use for recreational activities

The National Park is a protected territory and 1404 km ². The Peak District is largely private land and was not always accessible for hikers and nature lovers. In 1932 there was a protest (Mass trespass of Kinder Scout ), as about 400 people the bog plateau Kinder Scout topped illegally and thus caused a change in the law. The result was 1935, the Pennine Way, the longest footpath in England, which runs in a north -south direction through the Peak District and extends over 431 km from the village of Edale to Kirk Yetholm according to the Scottish border. The trail was created at the suggestion of the British journalist Tom Stephenson, who had been inspired by similar trails in the United States.

On April 17, 1951, with the Peak District area was in England for the first time declared a national park and opened up large parts of the population. In September 2004, more areas to the east and north-east of the Peak District have been made available to the public. The national park is used for a variety of recreational activities such as hiking, horseback riding, climbing, cycling and air sports.

Renaturation

In September 2013, the National Trust published, the vast areas in the National Park has a plan that has a restoration of peatlands in the Peak District to the destination. There are worked up with the measures particularly the plateaus as about the Kinder Scout. You want the water level by filling up the drains again let rise, but also certain crops such as grasses should be planting on the land again and so the erosion damage is eliminated. It is expected that it will take about 50 years before the action has been completed and the original landscape image shows again.

Views of the Peak District

Castleton

Dale Bottom - Hathersage

Dunford Bridge

Hepworth

Higger Tor

Holmfirth

Holme, West Yorkshire

Holme Moss Radio Tower

Scholes

The Rising Sun

Toad 's Mouth

Totties

Upper Holme Valley