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The Peak District, the last link in the Pennine Chain, has been called ‘the knobbly bottom bone in the spine of England’. Rising up above the heartland of industrial England it provides both solitude and recreation. At its centre is a limestone plateau — the White Peakseldom below 300 m and often rising to above 450 m. One of the most beautiful parts of this unspoiled area is Dovedale, notable for its rock spires and natural arches and for the excellence of its trout. Isaak Walton, his disciple Cotton, and Sir Humphrey Davy, have all celebrated it, not only for the sport it afforded them, but for its natural charms.
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© 1992 A. S. Goudie and R. A. M. Gardner
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Goudie, A., Gardner, R. (1992). Dovedale: caverns, spires and arches. In: Discovering Landscape in England & Wales. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2298-6_16
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