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England's Peak Experience; In the Heart of Industrial Britain, A Park Both Bleak & Breathtaking

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19930815
Author:Bill North

Less than an hour from the sprawling industrial cities of the English Midlands is a region Daniel Defoe called "a howling wilderness ... the most desolate, wild, and abandoned country in all England." Two hundred years later, this area, the Peak District National Park, is still a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde sort of place - part pastoral, part primeval.

The area known as the White Peak is the part with the sunny disposition. Spreading northward from the town of Ashbourne in a gradually widening V, the White Peak is really a vast limestone plateau eroded into billowy hills cloaked with ...

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