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High Peak Derbyshire

High Peak is a 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.

The borough neighbours 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.

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.

Settlements in the borough include:

Ashopton
Bamford, Buxton, Buxworth
Castleton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Charlesworth, Chinley, Crowden
Derwent, Dove Holes
Edale
Fernilee, Furness Vale
Gamesley, Glossop
Hadfield, Hayfield, Hope, Horwich
New Mills
Peak Forest
Rowarth
Sparrowpit
Tintwhistle, Thornhill
Whaley Bridge