A report on Peak District, Derbyshire, White Peak and Buxton

The White Peak, also known as the Low Peak, is a limestone plateau that forms the central and southern part of the Peak District in England.

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

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 includes the Dark Peak, where moorland is found and the geology is dominated by gritstone, and the White Peak, a limestone area with valleys and gorges.

Broadly speaking, the White Peak covers the Derbyshire and Staffordshire parts of the Peak District from the Hope Valley southwards to the Weaver Hills near the Churnet Valley.

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

As defined by Natural England, the White Peak national character area covers 52,860 ha and includes the area approximately bounded by Ashbourne, Buxton, Castleton, Matlock and Wirksworth.

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.

White Peak

Although outside the National Park boundary, Buxton is in the western part of the Peak District, between the Lower Carboniferous limestone of the White Peak to the east and the Upper Carboniferous shale, sandstone and gritstone of the Dark Peak to the west.