High Peak is a local government district with borough status in Derbyshire, England, covering a high moorland plateau in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park. The district stretches from Holme Moss in the north to Sterndale Moor in the south, and from Hague Bar in the west to Bamford in the east. The population of the borough taken at the 2011 Census was 90,892. The borough is unusual in having two administrative centres for its council, High Peak Borough Council; the offices are in Buxton and Glossop. Other towns include Chapel-en-le-Frith, Hadfield, New Mills and Whaley Bridge.
Buxton, one of the two administrative centres of High Peak (with Glossop) and the second largest settlement in the borough
Glossop, the second administrative centre of High Peak and the largest settlement in the borough
Derbyshire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire to the north, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the south and west, and Cheshire to the west. Derby is the largest settlement, and Matlock is the county town.
Image: Near Hathersage, Peak District 8 (cropped, edited)
Image: Masson Mill in Matlock Bath geograph.org.uk 2631130
The henge monument at Arbor Low
The rugged moorland edge of the southern Pennines at Kinder Downfall