Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about High Peak. You may be able to find further references to High Peak in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
High Peak	hundred	Bartholomew
Peak, The		Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to High Peak within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District	2
William Camden	Worcestershire and Staffordshire	1
Karl Moritz	Chapter 12: Derbyshire to Northampton	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Edale	0	3
Hayfield	0	2
Castleton	23	2
Chinley	0	2
Hope	0	2
Peak Forest	1	2
Chapel En le Frith	1	2
Hope Woodlands	0	2
New Mills	1	4
Yeardsley	0	2
Whitfield	0	2
Newtown	0	1
Charlesworth	0	2
Whaley Bridge	0	3
Bradwell	0	2
Glossop	0	3
Chisworth	0	2
Mellor	0	2
Wheston	0	3
Brough	0	2