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Peak District

The Peak District was Britain's first national park, established in April 1951 The whole of the Peak District National Park falls within Natural England's Lower North West mapping area which includes parts of Derbyshire, Staffordshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, all of Greater Manchester and Cheshire, along with Merseyside, most of Lancashire, a small part of Cumbria, and part of North Yorkshire. Around 38,000 people live in the Park in 125 parishes Visitors from all over the world come to the Park to find peace and tranquillity and to reconnect with the natural world They can also find adventure, experiencing some of England’s finest climbing, caving, walking and cycling The National Park covers 1,438 km2 (555 sq. miles) with over 2,500 km of public rights of way The main economic activities are tourism, manufacturing, farming and quarrying. Sunday 19 September 2004 was an important date for the Peak District National Park and everyone who enjoys the countryside. On this day around 250 sq km of private land was opened up for people to walk on - doubling the area of open access land in the National Park. Places such as Snailsden Moor, Bradfield Moor and Axe Edge Moor, great expanses of moorland, that had been out of bounds for the outward bound for more than 100 years, is now accessible to people on foot.

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