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High Peak

Borough of High Peak
Shown within Derbyshire
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	East Midlands
Admin. County:	Derbyshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 92nd 540.25 km²
Admin. HQ:	Chapel-en-le-Frith
ONS code:	17UH
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 248th 89,753 166 / km²
Ethnicity:	98.7% White
Politics
High Peak Borough Council http://www.highpeak.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative + Liberal Democrats + Independent
MP:	Tom Levitt

High Peak is a local government district and borough of the county of Derbyshire, England. Administered from the Chapel-en-le-Frith, it is mostly composed of high moorland plateaux in the Dark Peak of the Peak District. High Peak is also an alternative name for the Dark Peak.

High Peak was previously a name of a hundred of Derbyshire covering roughly the same area.

The borough neighbours the boroughs of Sheffield and Barnsley in South Yorkshire, Stockport, Tameside and Oldham in Greater Manchester, Derbyshire Dales in Derbyshire, and the counties of Cheshire and Staffordshire.

There are four main areas of settlement in the borough: around Buxton in the south west, around New Mills in the west, around Glossop in the north west, and the Hope Valley in the east.

Settlements in the borough include:

Bamford, Buxton, Castleton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Charlesworth, Chinley, Derwent, Edale

Fernilee, Gamesley, Glossop

Hadfield, Hayfield, Hope, New Mills

Tintwhistle, Thornhill

Whaley Bridge

Districts of England - East Midlands
Amber Valley | Ashfield | Bassetlaw | Blaby | Bolsover | Boston | Broxtowe | Charnwood | Chesterfield | Corby | Daventry | Derby | Derbyshire Dales | East Lindsey | East Northamptonshire | Erewash | Gedling | Harborough | High Peak | Hinckley and Bosworth | Kettering | Leicester | Lincoln | Mansfield | Melton | Newark and Sherwood | Northampton | North East Derbyshire | North Kesteven | North West Leicestershire | Nottingham | Oadby and Wigston | Rushcliffe | Rutland | South Derbyshire | South Holland | South Kesteven | South Northamptonshire | Wellingborough | West Lindsey
Administrative counties with multiple districts: Derbyshire - Leicestershire - Lincolnshire - Northamptonshire - Nottinghamshire