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unusual facts about High Peak



John Frederick Cheetham

He held that seat for five years, until the constituency was abolished at the 1885 general election, when he stood unsuccessfully in the new High Peak constituency, losing to the Conservative Party candidate William Sidebottom by only 9 votes (0.2% of the total).

Stannary Courts and Parliaments

Derbyshire: The hundreds of High Peak and Wirksworth (an area known as the "King's Field") were divided into eight "liberties" for the purposes of lead mining.


see also

Espadella

Espadella, a 968 m high peak, highest point of the Serra de l'Espadella range in the Baix Maestrat comarca, Valencian Community, Spain.

Germain Sommeiller

Pointe Sommeiller, a 3332-meter-high peak in the Cottian Alps, and Col Sommeiller, the nearby mountain pass linking Bramans, France to Bardonecchia, Italy, were named in his honour.

Mali i Thatë

It is found within Albania, close to the Macedonian border and from this high peak, among several mountains of Albania, both Ohrid Lake and Prespa Lake can be seen, as well as the third highest peak in the Republic of Macedonia, Baba Mountain or Pelister Mountain (2601 m).

Rusk Mountain

Rusk is the highest peak (and the only High Peak) on what Catskill forest historian Michael Kudish calls the Lexington Range, the northern of two that fork off from nearby Hunter Mountain, the second-highest Catskill peak.

Taufichtig

The Taufichtig is a 1,001 metre high peak northwest of the Fichtelberg massif in the upper Ore Mountains in Germany.