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Why's the peaks districts named so?

Whenever I go there I just see edges.

In reply to allyrocke:

I see some ridicule or abuse coming your way from certain users on here!

In reply to allyrocke:


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Its not

In reply to allyrocke:
Actually, if you look around when you're there you will see some actual summits. Thats why is known as the Peaks Districts.

In reply to allyrocke:

Why's the peaks districts named so?

Oh dear, easy mistake to make, but it's District not districts.

In reply to birdie num num: There are no actual summits in England.

In reply to allyrocke:
There's loads of summits in the Lakes Districts

In reply to allyrocke:

It's ancient Anglo-Saxon for Derbyshire, just a coincidence that it's also the same word used to denote the top of something.

FACT.

In reply to allyrocke:

Er, what about all the sports climbing venues?

In reply to AlanLittle:
the sloper district? that place is beset by grizzly old lawyers bitching about being banned from forums which aren't as good as they once were...

In reply to adstapleton:

I thought it was named after the inhabitants of the area who were known as The Pics, so Peak District (both words traditionally singular, of course) is just a corruption of that.

Still not sure if the op wasn't peeping out from under his bridge, though....

In reply to Rog Wilko:


I think he was.

In reply to allyrocke:
Contrary to what a lot of the revisionists on this thread have posted the origin of the "Peak District" is actually much more seedy:

It was origionally the "Peek District" as it housed a correctional institution for peeping toms and other perverts. The change to "Peak" was part of a Victorian attempt to clean up our place names, for instance roads like "Ticklecock lane" got changed to remove references to prostitution.

In reply to Reach>Talent:

I thought this was actually because gritstone climbers in the sheffield and derbyshire area stand up to belay the second "peeking" over the edge of outcrops like stannage and burbage