The White Peak Estate (previously known as the South Peak Estate) of the
National Trust
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comprises several land holdings in the Southern
Peak District
The Peak District is an upland area in England at the southern end of the Pennines. Mostly in Derbyshire
Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southe ...
. The holdings, totaling some , are managed from the estate office in Ilam and comprise:
*Ilam Park, including Ilam Hall which is let to the
Youth Hostel Association
Hostelling International (HI), formerly known as International Youth Hostel Federation (IYHF), is a grouping of more than seventy National Youth Hostel Associations in over eighty countries, with over 4,000 affiliated hostels around the worl ...
(YHA)
*
Dovedale
Dovedale is a valley in the Peak District of England. The land is owned by the National Trust and attracts a million visitors annually. The valley was cut by the River Dove, Central England, River Dove and runs for just over between Milldale ...
from
Thorpe Cloud
Thorpe Cloud is an isolated limestone hill (a reef knoll) lying between the villages of Thorpe and Ilam on the Derbyshire/ Staffordshire border at the southern end of Dovedale. It is a popular hill amongst the many day-trippers who visit the a ...
to Wolfscote Dale and Biggin Dale
*
Wetton Hill
Wetton is a village in the Peak District National Park, North Staffordshire, at the top of the east side of the Manifold Valley. The population recorded in the 2001 Census was 157. At the time of the 2011 Census the population was recorded und ...
and Wetton Mill
*
Ossam's Hill
*
Hamps Valley Woodlands (and
Beeston Tor
Beeston Tor () is a limestone cliff in Staffordshire. It overlooks the confluence of the River Hamps with the River Manifold, and is a popular venue for rock climbing (seasonal restrictions for rock climbing apply).
There was a small station ...
)
*Grindon Moor
*Ecton
*Land at Monyash
*Alsop Moor
*Stanton Moor Edge
*Ravenstor YHA
*
Taddington
Taddington is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish, together with neighbouring Blackwell in the Peak and Brushfield parishes, as taken at the 2011 census, was 457. It lies over above sea level, ...
Wood
*High Weeldon
*
Winster
Winster is a village in the English Derbyshire Dales about from Matlock and from Bakewell at an altitude of approximately . It was formerly a centre for the lead mining industry. The village lies within the Peak District National Park and The ...
Market House (the National Trust's first property in the Peak District, 1906)
Dovedale itself was acquired in 1934, and a string of acquisitions followed until 1938; Wolfscote Dale was acquired in 1948.
External links
South Peak Estate information at the National TrustPeak District, National Trust
National Trust properties in Staffordshire
Peak District
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