A report on Derbyshire, Buxton, Peak District and Axe Edge Moor

Buxton is a spa town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England.

Axe Edge Moor is the major moorland southwest of Buxton in the Peak District.

It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest.

Mostly in Derbyshire, it extends into Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire.

It lies close to Cheshire to the west and Staffordshire to the south, on the edge of the Peak District National Park.

The moor is shared between the counties of Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire, which meet on its southwestern flank at Three Shire Heads on the Dane.

Later they settled round Buxton, famed for its warm springs, and set up a fort near modern-day Derby in an area now known as Little Chester.

Built on the River Wye, and overlooked by Axe Edge Moor, Buxton became a spa town for its geothermal spring, which gushes at a steady 28 °C.

Outside the park, the wider Peak District often includes the area approximately between Disley and Sterndale Moor, encompassing Buxton and the Peak Dale corridor.

The River Derwent rises in the moorland of Bleaklow and flows throughout the Peak District and county for the majority of its course, while the River Dove rises in Axe Edge Moor and forms a boundary between Derbyshire and Staffordshire for most of its length.

The River Manifold and River Dove in the south-west, whose sources are on Axe Edge Moor, flow into the Trent.