LUSH LIFE
TOP TIP
DERBYSHIRE DALES
The Peak District may be the largest national park in the English Midlands, but it is hard to escape the sense that descriptions of the landscape sound like they belong in an unpublished JRR Tolkien novel. Like a topographical battle between good and evil, VisitEngland talks of “two contrasting personalities” – the area is split between the wilder moors of the Dark Peak to the north and the lush green gorges of the White Peak to the south.
The Derbyshire Dales is officially a local government district that encompasses much of the White Peak territory, as well as a number of market towns on the outskirts of Derby. It stretches right up to the villages of Hathersage, which contains the grave of Little
