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THE See also: land in the See also: north of See also: Derbyshire, See also: England, included in the Pennine range of hills
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The name, however, is extended, without definite limits, to cover the whole of the hilly See also: district north of Buxton
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The table-land reaches an See also: elevation of 2088 ft. in Kinder Scout
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The See also: geological formation is millstone-grit, and the underlying beds are not domed, but cup-shaped, dipping inward from the flanks of the mass
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The See also: summit is a peaty moorland, through which masses of See also: rock project at intervals
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The name of this high See also: plateau has from the 17th century been identified with " See also: peak," the pointed or conical top of a See also: mountain, but the very early references to the district and certain places in it show clearly, as the New See also: English See also: Dictionary points out, that this connexion is unwarranted
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The name appears in the Old English See also: Chronicle (924) as Peaclond, of the district governed from the See also: castle of Peveril of the Peak (see DERBYSHIRE), and also in the name of the cavern under the See also: hill at
See also: Castleton, Peac's Arse
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Peac, it has been suggested, is the name of a See also: local deity or demon, and possibly may be indentified with Puck
.
For the etymology of " peak," point, &c., and its variants or related words, " pick " and " pike," see PIKE
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