Peak District

AndyP said:

Is there any walk in the Peak District that anyone might refer to as

"The 3

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Peaks"?

Ermmm, I live in said area and I've never come across one before.

We don't really have peaks as such, we have large tracts of variously
boggy moorlands with vague summits.

Oh, and Chrome Hill. That's about it really

Chris

On 7 Feb 2005 09:07:52 -0800, "Chris Gilbert" <[email hidden]>

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AndyP said:

Is there any walk in the Peak District that anyone might refer to as

"The 3

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Peaks"?

Ermmm, I live in said area and I've never come across one before.

We don't really have peaks as such...

Not exactly aptly named, I would venture ;-)

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Is there any walk in the Peak District that anyone might refer to as "The

3

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Peaks"?

I suspect they meant the Yorkshire Dales, where the nearest "3 peaks" are
(that's near relative to, say, London)

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Nope but there's some epic walks you can do!

1. Dove Stones to Edale
2. Black Hill, Bleaklow Head, Higher Shelf, Kinder Plateau, finish in Edale
3. Or like me get her indoors to drop you at the Woodhead tunnels and make
your way across the moors, over Kinder and to Edale.

I like Edale.

Lewis

John Laird wrote

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Not exactly aptly named, I would venture ;-)

Ah, now there you'd be wrong. The name derives from the ancient
tribe of people who lived here; The Piccas. Not the geography.

Allegedly

Chris

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John Laird wrote

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Not exactly aptly named, I would venture ;-)

Ah, now there you'd be wrong. The name derives from the ancient
tribe of people who lived here; The Piccas.

Very small Types, were they? 8>.

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Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the
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John Laird wrote

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Not exactly aptly named, I would venture ;-)

Ah, now there you'd be wrong. The name derives from the ancient
tribe of people who lived here; The Piccas.

Very small Types, were they? 8>.

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Chris Gilbert said:

John Laird wrote

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Not exactly aptly named, I would venture ;-)

Ah, now there you'd be wrong. The name derives from the ancient
tribe of people who lived here; The Piccas. Not the geography.

Allegedly

Well, I've learned something (allegedly) new today, then. Ta !

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Chris Gilbert said:

John Laird wrote

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Not exactly aptly named, I would venture ;-)

Ah, now there you'd be wrong. The name derives from the ancient
tribe of people who lived here; The Piccas. Not the geography.

Allegedly

Well, I've learned something (allegedly) new today, then. Ta !

The spelling is Pecsaetan, and I am lead to believe that this translates
to the "Dwellers in the Peak", which would make the Peak District
derived from the geography. (Compare Cilternsaetan, Dorsaetan,
Elmetsaetan, Pencersaetan, Sumorsaetan, Tomsaetan, Wihtsaetan,
Willsaetan, Wrocensaetan - the dwellers in/around the Chilterns, Dorset,
Elmet, the Penk?, Somerton, the Tame, the Isle of Wight, the Wylye, and
the Wrekin. Also the Magonsaetan south and west of the Severn, but the
derivation of this name is not obvious.)

Peak is a relatively new word in English (according to the dictionary by
my computer perhaps a variant of pike, influenced by beak); pike comes
of OE pic, which meant a conical hill. So we're back to the quandary as
to why the Peak District is so-called, when it's noticably deficient in
peaks as opposed to dissected and undissected plateaux. I'd speculate
that the meaning of pic drifted in the relevant dialect of English.
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