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Edale Valley
The Pennine Way, starts in The Peak District, near Edale. In total there are over 2,000km of public footpaths and over 100km of cycling trails in the National Park. Edale is in fact the common name given to the whole valley. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Aidele, but the settlements along the valley bottom are now called Booths which is a term that came along in the 16th and 17th centuries when foresters and boothmen built shelters for their cattle and sheep. A booth was an enclosure rented from the Crown where a herdsman or settler could protect his stock from wolves. The shelters expanded to permanent dwellings and now form the hamlets. The UK’s first long distance footpath,
Edale Valley
The Pennine Way, starts in The Peak District, near Edale. In total there are over 2,000km of public footpaths and over 100km of cycling trails in the National Park. Edale is in fact the common name given to the whole valley. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Aidele, but the settlements along the valley bottom are now called Booths which is a term that came along in the 16th and 17th centuries when foresters and boothmen built shelters for their cattle and sheep. A booth was an enclosure rented from the Crown where a herdsman or settler could protect his stock from wolves. The shelters expanded to permanent dwellings and now form the hamlets. The UK’s first long distance footpath,