Millstone Grit
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Millstone Grit is any of a number of coarse-grained sandstones of Carboniferous age which occur in the British Isles. The name derives from its use in earlier times as a source of millstones for use p
The Salt Cellar, a gritstone tor on Derwent Edge in the Peak District, England
Stanage Edge in the eastern Peak district
Dark Peak
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The Dark Peak is the higher and wilder part of the Peak District in England, mostly forming the northern section but also extending south into its eastern and western margins. It is mainly in Derbyshi
Millstone Grit
…many of which are of considerable cultural significance. They are the major landscape-forming rocks of the northern part of the Peak District (the Dark Peak) and of its eastern and western flanks in the counties of Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire. The great expanses of moorland around Bleaklow and…
Dark Peak landscape seen from Stanage Edge
The summit of Bleaklow, second highest hill in the Dark Peak