THE See also:

• THE PEAK

PEAK  , a high table-See also:

• LAND

land in the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north of See also:

• DERBYSHIRE

Derbyshire, See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, included in the Pennine range of hills . The name, however, is extended, without definite limits, to See also:

• COVER (from the Fr. convert, from couvrir, to cover, Lat. cooperire)

cover the whole of the hilly See also:

• DISTRICT

district north of See also:

• BUXTON
• BUXTON, JEDEDIAH (1707–1772)
• BUXTON, SIR THOMAS POWELL (1786-1845)

Buxton . The table-land reaches an See also:

• ELEVATION

elevation of 2088 ft. in Kinder See also:

• SCOUT (from O. Fr. escouter, mod. ecouter, Lat. auscultare, to listen)

Scout . The See also:

• GEOLOGICAL

geological formation is millstone-grit, and the underlying beds are not domed, but See also:

• CUP (in O.E. cuppe; generally taken to be from Late Lat. cuppa, a variant of Lat. cupa, a cask, cf. Gr. KuaeXXov)

cup-shaped, dipping inward from the flanks of the See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass . The See also:

• SUMMIT

summit is a peaty moorland, through which masses of See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

rock project at intervals . The name of this high See also:

• PLATEAU (a French term, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat)
• PLATEAU, JOSEPH ANTOINE FERDINAND (1801-1883)

plateau has from the 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century been identified with " See also:

• PEAK, THE

peak," the pointed or conical See also:

• TOP (cf. Dan. top, Ger. Topf, also meaning pot)

top of a See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain, but the very See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early references to the district and certain places in it show clearly, as the New See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary points out, that this connexion is unwarranted . The name appears in the Old English See also:

• CHRONICLE (from Gr. Xpovos, time)

Chronicle (924) as Peaclond, of the district governed from the See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle of Peveril of the Peak (see DERBYSHIRE), and also in the name of the cavern under the See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill at See also:

• CASTLETON

Castleton, Peac's Arse . Peac, it has been suggested, is the name of a See also:

• LOCAL

local deity or demon, and possibly may be indentified with Puck . For the See also:

• ETYMOLOGY (Gr. grvµos, true, and X6yos, "account)

etymology of " peak," point, &c., and its variants or related words, " pick " and " See also:

• PIKE
• PIKE, ZEBULON MONTGOMERY (1779-1813)

pike," see PIKE .