the peak district became a national park on january 26, 1915.
the peak district became a national park on january 26, 1915.
when did the peak district became a national park?
january 26, 1915
ethel haythornthwaite (1894–1986) was an english environmental campaigner, and a pioneer of the countryside movement. she founded the group that would go on to become the friends of the peak district, aimed at protecting the countryside of the peak district from development. she forefronted the appeal to save the 747-acre longshaw estate from development, and helped acquire land around sheffield that became its green belt. she was appointed to the uk government’s national parks committee, and helped to make the successful case for the national parks and access to the countryside act of 1949, which led to the founding of the peak district national park in 1951. she also helped make green belts part of government policy in 1955.
ethel haythornthwaite
the national park has a formal boundary and covers most of the dark peak and white peak, but the wider peak district is less well defined. the dark peak is largely uninhabited moorland and gritstone escarpments in the northern peak district and its eastern and western margins. it encloses the central and southern white peak which is where most settlements, farmland and limestone gorges are located. three of natural england's national character areas (ncas) include the landscape. the dark peak nca includes the northern and eastern parts of the dark peak while the white peak nca covers most of the white peak. the western margins of the dark peak are in the south west peak nca, where farmland and pastured valleys are found as well as gritstone edges and moorland. outside the park, the wider peak district is often considered to include the area approximately between disley and sterndale moor, and some of the outer fringes and foothills, including the churnet and lower derwent valleys. the region is mostly surrounded by lowlands with gritstone moorlands of the south pennines to the north.
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