Dark Peak
The Dark Peak is the higher and wilder part of the Peak District in England, mostly forming the northern section but also extending south into its eastern and western margins.
The Dark Peak is the higher and wilder part of the Peak District in England, mostly forming the northern section but also extending south into its eastern and western margins. It is mainly in Derbyshire but parts are in Staffordshire, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Dark Peak
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01The Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Edale
The Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Edale, is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Edale, Derbyshire.
3.6 km · grade II listed church in Edale, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Edale War Memorial
Edale War Memorial is a 20th-century grade II listed war memorial in Edale, Derbyshire.
3.6 km · memorial in Edale, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Grindslow Knoll
Grindslow Knoll is a hill in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, England. It is joined to Kinder Scout by a high col though from most angles appears as an independent peak.
3.4 km · hill in Derbyshire, UK · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Dark Peak
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 32 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 53 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 70 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Dark Peak52 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £8–10
- Liverpool → Dark Peak75 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £9–12
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Dark Peak65 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £7–10
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Dark Peak
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Dark Peak. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Dark Peak – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Dark Peak
Dark Peak is 22 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Edalevillage and civil parish in High Peak, Derbyshire, England3.9 km
- Hope Woodlandscivil parish in High Peak, Derbyshire, England700 m
- Birchinleehamlet in Derbyshire, England, UK3.9 km