The Dark Peak is the higher, northern part of the Peak District in England. In contrast to the White Peak, the underlying rock is millstone grit, resulting in largely uninhabited moorland plateaux. The Peak District is an upland area in central and northern England. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked... The White Peak is the lower, southern part of the Peak District in England. ... Gritstone is a sedimentary rock composed of coarse sand grains and is a coarser version of sandstone. ... Heaths are anthropogenic habitats found primarily in northern and western Europe, where they have been created by thousands of years of human clearance of natural forest vegetation by grazing and burning on mainly infertile acidic soils. ... In geology and earth science, a plateau, also called a tableland, is an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat open country if the uplift was recent in geologic history. ...

Broadly speaking, the Dark Peak covers the Derbyshire Peaks north of the Hope Valley, and the Yorkshire Peaks and those in Greater Manchester, within the Peak Park. Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, and boasts some of Englands most attractive scenery. ... The Hope Valley is a valley in the Peak District in Derbyshire, England. ... The White Yorkshire rose. ... Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in England established in 1974 which covers an area roughly encompassing the conurbation surrounding the City of Manchester. ...

Principal areas include Kinder Scout, Bleaklow (both of which rise to over 2000 ft, and lie wholly within Derbyshire), and Black Hill. Kinder Scout is a moorland plateau (and mountain) in the Dark Peak of the Derbyshire Peak District in the United Kingdom. ... Bleaklow is a high moorland, just north of Kinder Scout, across the Snake Pass (A57), in the Derbyshire High Peak. ... Black Hill is a hill in the Peak District lying on the border between Kirklees borough and Derbyshire, reaching 582 metres above sea level. ...

The High Peak is an alternative name for the Dark Peak, but High Peak is also the name of an administrative district of Derbyshire which includes part of the White Peak. High Peak is a local government district and borough of the county of Derbyshire, England. ... The Districts of England are the lowest level of local government in England, except for civil parishes. ...

There are plans by Sheffield City Council to construct a wind farm as a renewable power source to the urban area of Sheffield. A site of moorland in the South Dark Peak has been selected as a potential site for the wind farm. There has been strong support for them as well as bitter opposition by many locals. The Sheffield Green Party, for example, has expressed its opposition to the construction of the turbines.

Over the years, a number of military aircraft have crashed on the Dark Peak. There are numerous photographs of the various crash sites on the Dark Peak at High Peak Bob. (The author of the site lives nearby in the Glossop area).