Book description
A guide to walking the southern dales of the White Peak area of the
Peak District, England UK, between Ashbourne, Matlock, Buxton and Leek.
In 1951 the Peak District - 555 square miles of breathing space between
the cities of Manchester and Sheffield - became the UK's first National
Park and rightly so. This much-loved landscape has cultural integrity,
geographical variety, treasured wildlife habitats and lots of
recreational opportunities. Its rockier southern half, the White Peak,
takes its name from the underlying limestone and is a charming mosaic of
idyllic villages, pastures, woods and valleys. The walks in this guide
explore both the high rolling plateau and the seclusion of the side
dales, following the twists and turns of the Dove, Manifold and Hamps
rivers. The book offers a wide selection of easy circular routes of up
to 10 miles, illustrated with OS map extracts and forms one of the first
two books in Cicerone's three-volume series on the Peak District.
Writer and broadcaster Mark Richards is the author of Cicerone's new
8-volume Lakeland Fellranger series and of the best-selling 'Great
Mountain Days in the Lake District'. His first series of guides to the
Peak District was published in the 1980s and has been in print ever
since.
