Talk:Dark Peak

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The Dark Peak (& White Peak) as a name didn't really come into common usage (*) until the OS map (1972) of that name, as I recollect. As a division based on geology it's rather questionable - the high gritstone comes down well below the Hope Valley (eg Axe Edge & the Roaches on the west and the Froggatt & Curbar area in the East). And it leaves the shale ridge of Mam Tor/Rushup Edge in neither Dark Peak nor White Peak camps.

But perhaps these were terms used all the time in 50 & 60s Manchester, Sheffield (and perhaps also South of the Trent), but just not Derby!

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I'm surprised to see this listed as a Yorkshire stub (only) - a broad enough definition to the Aire gap (?) might justify this on area grounds, but all the 'interesting territory' (Kinder, Bleaklow, Black Hill) is (since the Cheshire boundary was redrawn) firmly in Derbyshire (OK Black Hill is shared). Linuxlad

Don't forget that the north eastern Upper Derwent Valley is in South Yorkshire, and the Dark Peak includes the area around Margery Hill, the highest point in S Yorks. But I agree that there should also be a Derbyshire geo stub note. Warofdreams 11:30, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well a quick check on multimap confirms that the Eastern county boundary runs (as it did in my childhood) up the Derwent itself... And we're always happy to _share_ our county's beauties with the more discerning foreigner! (Applies a fortiori to Dovedale - 'the nicest bits of Derbyshire are in Staffordshire'!) Bob aka Linuxlad

I think the main problem (pace Grutness) is that the yorkshire stub boldly says 'this yorkshire location...' - gets right my hooter!

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