A report on Peak District, Derbyshire, Buxton and Glossop

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

Glossop is a market town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England, 15 mi east of Manchester, 24 mi north-west of Sheffield and 32 mi north of the county town, Matlock, near Derbyshire's borders with Cheshire, Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.

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

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

It is between 150 and 300 m above mean sea level, and is bounded by the Peak District National Park to the south, east and north.

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

In 1974, the municipal borough merged with other nearby boroughs, including Glossop, to form the local government district and borough of High Peak.

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.

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 towns of Glossop, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Buxton, Macclesfield, Leek, Ashbourne, Matlock and Chesterfield are on the national park's fringes.

Glossop was the smallest town in the country to have a football team in the top tier of English football, Glossop North End.

Chapel-en-le-Frith, Buxton and Derby lie to the south, along the A624 and A6.