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Peak District (Peak District)

sillygilly

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Peak District
Date: 13/09/00 (39 review reads)
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Advantages: nice place

Disadvantages: none

The Peak District stands at the south end of the Pennine Chain bordered by Derby, Manchester, and Sheffield, about 540 square miles are included in the Peak District National Park, it is the first National Park to be created by parliament. It has been popular with visitors since the seventeenth century. By the romantic era The Peak District was valued like The Wye Valley and the Lake District as a minature of the Alps. If you go there there is plenty to see such as Mam Tor, The Limestone Caverns near Buxton and Castleton, and Chatsworth Hall. All the towns and villages have a well dressing which is where the wells are decorated with flower petals pressed into a clay base, to form pictures or designs which are then blessed at a religious ceremony. This probably originated as a pagan thanksgiving for water.

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Last comment:
ermintrude

- 15/12/00

Sorry for the SU - I just thought you could have expanded a bit, especially on your list of things to do. Someone who hasn't heard of Mam Tor could have absolutely no idea that it's a hill; it would be nice to know what you can do at the Limestone caverns and Chatsworth as well.

I hope that explains my rating. If you update the opinion, let me know, and I will happily come back and re-rate it.


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