Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An area of west-central England at the southern end of the Pennines. Consisting largely of rolling uplands, it is the site of Britain's first national park (founded 1951).
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- proper noun A
national park in northern England.
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Examples
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A4e's latest accounts show that Harrison, who lives with her husband in Thornbridge Hall, a 12th-century stately home in the heart of the Peak District, has an 85.5% shareholding in the Sheffield-based company.
£1.4m-a-year welfare entrepreneur picked by Cameron to get Britons off benefits and into work 2011
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Nor was the house energy efficient, being notoriously cold, buffeted by the cold winds of the Peak District, made worse by Bess's insistence on a spectacular number of large windows.
Letters: People who lived in glass houses and climate change 2011
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In the mid-18th century, the moors and caverns of the Peak District, long a popular itinerary, began to seem tame – not remote or wild enough.
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Holidaylettings.co.uk has many great properties, and one new addition this year in a county always hungry for stylish new options is The Barn, a 15th-century GradeII-listed conversion on the edge of the Peak District, with four bedrooms, 600-year-old beams, underfloor heating and a private hot tub.
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Squatting in the foothills of the Peak District, and sandwiched into a strip of countryside between the industrial towns of Derby and Burton-on-Trent, its stone and Victorian redbrick buildings cluster together in a tight huddle alongside Repton Brook, as if sheltering from the fierce winds that whistle down off Darley Moor to the north.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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That happens to fit quite well in the context of Exile, much of which is set on the moorland of the Peak District where the strange rock formations play on the beliefs held by some of the characters.
Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010
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The Old Vic Tunnels, London; The Old Market, BrightonThe end of the world hits hard in the Peak District, while love affairs go awry in a coastal boarding house, writes Susannah Clapp
Ditch; Marine Parade 2010
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That happens to fit quite well in the context of Exile, much of which is set on the moorland of the Peak District where the strange rock formations play on the beliefs held by some of the characters.
Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010
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He also likes to go to places close to the U.K. or even stay at home in England to explore the Peak District where he lives.
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And the very few attractive parts of the north of England (Lake District, Peak District, Northumbria). £15bn.
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