Peak Forest is a small village and civil parish on the main road the (A623) from Chapel-en-le-Frith to Chesterfield in Derbyshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 335. The village grew from the earlier settlement of Dam (still inhabited, with a number of houses and farms) at the conjunction of Perrydale and Damdale. There is an inn, a church and a primary school. Its name probably derives from the Forest of High Peak. The village is at the heart of the old royal forest and was formerly known as Chamber of Campana. The nearby Chamber Farm or Chamber Knoll may have been the exact location of the residence and meeting place of local forest officials. Its church is dedicated to 'Charles, King & Martyr' (King Charles I of England, executed in 1649). First erected in 1657, it was replaced in 1878 as a gift from the Duke of Devonshire. Until an Act of Parliament was passed in 1754 its minister was able to perform marriages without the need for reading the banns, and the village was known as the Gretna Green of Derbyshire. The Peak Forest Canal, although originally aiming for the limestone quarries in Great Rocks Dale just to the south of the village, never reached nearer than Buxworth, seven miles away, where it terminates at Bugsworth Basin. Instead, a horse-drawn tramway, the Peak Forest Tramway, was constructed in the late 18th century to connect the canal with the quarries between Dove Holes and Peak Forest. The original limestone-carrying purpose of the canal was replaced long ago by the Great Rocks mineral railway line serving the quarries around Buxton and joining the Manchester–Sheffield line, via the diverging Chapel Milton Viaduct over the Black Brook valley at Chapel Milton (between Chapel-en-le-Frith and Chinley). Its railway station (now closed) was built by the Midland Railway, two miles away at Small Dale. This was on its extension of the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway, part of the main Midland Line from Manchester to London. It was also the northern junction for the line from Buxton. Stage 1 of the Peak District Boundary Walk runs from Buxton to Peak Forest.

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Peak Forest

Peak Forest est une paroisse civile et un village du Derbyshire, en Angleterre.
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North East Derbyshire

Le North East Derbyshire est un district non-métropolitain du Derbyshire, en Angleterre. Il existe depuis le 1er avril 1964 et est issu de la fusion des districts urbains de Clay Cross et Dronfield, ainsi que le district rural de Chesterfield, à l'exception d'une paroisse. Le conseil de district siège en dehors du district, à Chesterfield, qu'il encercle par le nord, l'est et le sud.
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Wheston

Wheston est une paroisse civile et un village du Derbyshire, en Angleterre.
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Wormhill

Wormhill est un village et une paroisse civile du Derbyshire, en Angleterre. Administrativement, il relève du district de High Peak.
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Mam Tor

Mam Tor est une colline de 517 mètres située à proximité de Castleton dans le Peak District du Derbyshire, en Angleterre. Son nom signifie « colline mère », appelée ainsi en raison des fréquents glissements de terrain sur sa face orientale entraînant la formation d'une multitude de « mini-collines » en contrebas. Ces glissements de terrain, causés par des couches inférieures instables de schiste, offre le nom alternatif de Shivering Mountain (« Montagne frissonnante ») à la colline. En 1979, la bataille perpétuelle visant à maintenir la route A625 (Sheffield à Chapel-en-le-Frith) sur le côté est délabré de la colline est perdue lorsque la route est officiellement fermée en tant qu'axe de circulation, la section Fox House à Castleton étant redésignée A6187. La colline est couronnée d'une fortification à rempart unique datant de la fin de l'âge du bronze ainsi que du début de l'âge du fer, et de deux tumulus en forme de bol datant de l'âge du bronze. Au pied du Tor et à proximité se trouvent quatre grottes aménagées : Blue John Cavern, Speedwell Cavern, Peak Cavern et Treak Cliff Cavern, où l'on extrayait autrefois du plomb, du Blue John, du fluor et d'autres minéraux. Mam Tor est déclarée être l'une des sept merveilles du Pic par Thomas Hobbes dans De Mirabilibus Pecci paru en 1636.