Monsal Trail : Essential lighting works is taking place from Mon 13 May for five weeks. Tunnels will remain open but light levels may be lower than usual. Please obey signs and take care when passing the works.

Learning about

The Learning and Discovery Team provides high quality education services. Contact the team on 01433 620373 or email us

Education factsheets

Educating future generations about the National Park is an important part of our mission.

These factsheets are based on our extremely popular but now offline peakdistrict-nationalpark.info website, and have since been completely updated.  Please note: Some of the factsheets are missing pictures, but these will be added soon.

Introduction

Fact Sheet 1 - Peak District National Park (307 KB) Adobe pdf document

Important issues

Fact Sheet 2 - Tourism in the Peak District National Park (1.1MB) Adobe pdf document

Fact Sheet 3 - Farming in the Peak District National Park (118 KB) Adobe pdf document

Fact Sheet 4 - Quarrying and Mineral Extraction in the Peak District National Park (132 KB) Adobe pdf document

Fact Sheet 5 - Traffic and transport in the Peak District National Park (131 KB) Adobe pdf document

Fact Sheet 6 - Rocks and minerals in the Peak District National Park (189 KB) Adobe pdf document

Fact Sheet 7- Wildlife of the Peak District National Park (142 KB) Adobe pdf document

Fact Sheet 8 -Conservation in the Peak District National Park (162 KB) Adobe pdf document

People and settlements

Fact Sheet 9 - Bakewell (147 KB) Adobe pdf document

Fact Sheet 10 - Castleton (146 KB) Adobe pdf document

Fact Sheet 11 -  Living in the Peak District National Park (260 KB) Adobe pdf document

Places

Fact Sheet 12 - Dovedale (144KB) Adobe pdf document

Fact Sheet 13 - Upper Derwent Valley (166KB) Adobe pdf document

Fact Sheet 14 - Burbage Valley (156 KB) Adobe pdf document

Fact Sheet 15 - Langsett Valley (163 KB) Adobe pdf document

Fact Sheet 16 - Goyt Valley (180 KB) Adobe pdf document

Fact Sheet 17 - Upper Longdendale (146 KB) Adobe pdf document