High Peak

:See also the High Peak (UK Parliament constituency)

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High Peak is a local government district and borough of the county of Derbyshire, England. Administered from the Chapel-en-le-Frith, it is mostly composed of high moorland plateaux in the Dark Peak of the Peak District. High Peak is also an alternative name for the Dark Peak.

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High Peak was previously a name of a hundred of Derbyshire covering roughly the same area.

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The borough adjoins the boroughs of Sheffield and Barnsley in South Yorkshire, Stockport, Tameside and Oldham in Greater Manchester, Derbyshire Dales in Derbyshire, and the counties of Cheshire and Staffordshire.

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There are four main areas of settlement in the borough: around Buxton in the south west, around New Mills in the west, around Glossop in the north west, and the Hope Valley in the east.

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Settlements in the borough include:

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:Ashopton

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:Bamford, Buxton, Buxworth

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:Castleton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Charlesworth, Chinley, Crowden

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:Derwent, Dove Holes

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:Edale

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:Fernilee, Furness Vale

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:Gamesley, Glossop

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:Hadfield, Hayfield, Hope, Horwich

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:New Mills

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:Peak Forest

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:Rowarth

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:Sparrowpit

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:Tintwhistle, Thornhill

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:Whaley Bridge

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