Covering 550 square miles, the Peak District is the UK’s first national park and draws over 13 million visitors every year.
Often seen as the birthplace of our right to roam, it offers a gateway to the outdoors for millions.
This image collection captures the Peak District’s evolving landscapes over the past century, along with moments from a Scout and Guide camp at Chatsworth and scenes from the Bakewell Show.
5. Sheep market
Sheep market, Bakewell c1950s-1960. (Photo by NEMPR Picture the Past/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Photo: Heritage Images
6. Motor accident
Motor accident, Baslow Bridge, 1915. A motor bus (Charabanc) accident on Baslow Bridge, showing the bus balanced precariously over the parapet. Note that the vehicle has solid rubber tyres. The spectators are presumably the charabanc's passengers who have had a lucky escape. The stone bridge with cutwaters probably dates from the 17th century. (Photo by NEMPR Picture the Past/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Photo: Heritage Images
7. Chatsworth House
Chatsworth House c1916. The first house at Chatsworth near Bakewell in Derbyshire was built by Bess of Hardwick (c1527-1608) and her second husband Sir William Cavendish (1505-1557). Building began in 1552, and many additions and alterations were made over the years by its subsequent occupants. Chatsworth House has been the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire since 1687. (Photo by NEMPR Picture the Past/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Photo: Heritage Images
8. Courtyard of Haddon Hall
Courtyard of Haddon Hall c1918. Haddon Hall is the finest example of a medieval manor house currently in existence in England. The hall is one of the seats of the Dukes of Rutland (Manners Family) and lies alongside the River Wye. The Manners family inherited Haddon after John Manners, brother of the 2nd Earl of Rutland, married Dorothy, one of the co-heiresses of Sir George Vernon (King of the Peak), the last Vernon of Haddon Hall. The Rutlands used the hall very little in the 18th and 19th centuries, so it was almost unaltered since the end of the 16th century when the 9th Duke realised its importance and began restoration in the 1920s. The Vernons had lived at Haddon for four centuries. The present Duke of Rutland, Edward Manners, still owns the hall. (Photo by NEMPR Picture the Past/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Photo: Heritage Images