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PEAK, THE , a high table-See also:land in the See also:north of See also:Derbyshire, See also:England, included in the Pennine range of hills. The name, however, is extended, without definite limits, to See also:cover the whole of the hilly See also:district north of See also:Buxton. The table-land reaches an See also:elevation of 2088 ft. in Kinder See also:Scout. The See also:geological formation is millstone-grit, and the underlying beds are not domed, but See also:cup-shaped, dipping inward from the flanks of the See also:mass. The See also:summit is a peaty moorland, through which masses of See also:rock project at intervals. The name of this high See also:plateau has from the 17th See also:century been identified with " peak," the pointed or conical See also:top of a See also:mountain, but the very See also:early references to the district and certain places in it show clearly, as the New See also:English See also:Dictionary points out, that this connexion is unwarranted. The name appears in the Old English See also:Chronicle (924) as Peaclond, of the district governed from the See also:castle of Peveril of the Peak (see DERBYSHIRE), and also in the name of the cavern under the See also:hill at See also:Castleton, Peac's Arse. Peac, it has been suggested, is the name of a See also:local deity or demon, and possibly may be indentified with Puck. For the See also:etymology of " peak," point, &c., and its variants or related words, " pick " and " See also:pike," see PIKE.

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