EAT THE PEAK
Peak Experience
- Ancient Farming
- Beef and Cows
- Cheese and milk
- Farming Today
- Game and fish
- Guest Houses on Working Farms
- Honey to Beers
- How Farmers Made Moorlands
- Lamb and Sheep
- Local Recipes
- Markets and Towns
- Oatcakes
- Peak District Foods and Cuisine
- Puddings
- Stone Field Barns
- The Environmental Quality Mark
- Walls Across the Peak
Eat the Peak
From the Field to the Fork
How We Ate the Peak District
People have been eating the Peak District for thousands of years!
cows grazing at dusk
sheep grazing on moorland
a cow grazingFarming created the moorlands of the Dark Peak and the walled fields of the White
Peak. From prehistory to today generations of farmers have grown oats, reared
sheep and cattle, and produced milk, cheese and honey.
Discover how farming helped craft the Peak District landscape we know today.
Look out for traditional working farms and signs of historic and prehistoric farming.
The links on the right include farm guest houses where you can explore traditional
farming and meet farm animals. There are places to eat and shop, where you can
savour the distinctive local foods of the Peak District. From locally reared
beef and lamb to traditional cheeses and oatcakes, you too can eat the Peak District.
When you enjoy local foods, you are helping to care for this beautiful landscape
formed by thousands of years of farming.
people enjoying a coffee and cake from a great viewpoint
a butcher with prozed sausages Geology first shaped the Peak District hills, valleys and soils. Wild habitats
are created by climate and topography. But it is farming that has most altered
the surface of the landscape.
Use the links to explore the farming landscape and discover how we ate the Peak
District alive!
Peak Experience self-guided trails
How We Ate......Blackwell (415kb)
A self-guided trail starting at Miller's Dale that takes you back thousands of years to discover
how Blackwell and Priestcliff have been shaped by farming.
How We Ate.......Longshaw (5mb)
This self-guided trail takes you through the Longshaw Estate owned by the National Trust, and the home
to the longest continuously running sheep dog trials.
Written: Bill Bevan
Research: Melissa Peet
Photography: Bill Bevan & Ray Manley (PDNPA)
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