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AA Leisure Guide Peak District (AA Leisure Guides)
by AA Publishing
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Aa Publishing (2007-09-28)
ISBN: 0749550198
EAN: 9780749550196
Dewey Decimal #: 914.25110486
Binding/Media: Spiral-bound - 160 pages
SKU: S379t-1002
Condition: New
Comments: In stock - Sent fast from British booksellers.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
This new travel series from Britain's largest travel publisher offers national coverage of the best-loved and most popular places to visit in England, Scotland, and Wales. Each includes 10 walks, three bicycle rides, and two car tours for rural areas, national parks, heritage coastline, and areas of outstanding natural beauty—all fully mapped. These guides detail the best places to visit in the area and listing pages provide reviews of pubs and tea shops, plus information on where to shop, local specialties, activities, events, and festivals. The fold-back-flat spiral binding makes using these guides easy and perfect for taking on the road.
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Customer Reviews
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A Guide to Britain's oldest national park...
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-03-21
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This 2007 version of the AA Leisure Guide to the Peak District is a terrific resource for planning and enjoying a vacation in Britain's oldest and still very impressive national park.
Located south and east of Manchester in the center of England, the Peak District features a beautiful collection of landscapes, including moderate hills, long ridgelines, cliffs, remote moors, and pretty river valleys. If the scale of the hills here is less than, say, the Cairngorms in Scotland, they are likely to be more user-friendly to the average walking-fit tourist. The Peak District is also home to several old resort towns, including Buxton and Matlock, and to a collection of impressive private homes open to visitors, including Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall.
The guide covers the Peak District in five geographic sections: The Dark Peak, the White Peak, Buxton and the Western Moors, the Southern Dales, and the Derwent Valley and Eastern Moors. The format notes the essential sights for each section and their location on a map graphic, provides directions for driving tours, and details at least one extended walk and one cycling tour per section. General information on the Peak District, such as transportation considerations and the location of pubs and tea rooms, is also included. An impressive selection of color photographs provides a good sense of the landscapes and of the more popular attractions. A couple of large-scale maps in the back permit navigation into and through the Peak District from the nearest big cities.
This updated guide is very highly recommended as a planning and touring resource for those intended to visit the Peak District.
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