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Peak views

It’s great to see your adventures and memories of the UK’s original National Park on our social media channels. Of course, social media wasn’t around 70 years ago, but you have been tagging us since 2008, so we have trawled back in time to find some of our favourite posts. We hope you enjoy them.

Naturally inspiring The National Park landscape inspires people in many different ways, ‘Waterlicht’ on Winnats Pass was particularly memorable. This unique event in 2017, organised by Abandon Normal Devices, was a laser light show that filled the Pass with blue light – a truly immersive temporary art installation, caught in this image by @ChrisFosterPhotography.

History in the skies

Commemorative flights by historic aeroplanes have drawn crowds over the years to the Upper Derwent Valley. This photo was taken by a member of National Park staff. The flights are organised by the Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. The Lancaster bomber has flown down the Derwent Valley to mark anniversaries of 617 Squadron’s raid on German dams.

Well, well, well!

Well dressings are made and displayed in many Derbyshire towns and villages between May and September. These colourful tableaux are created using natural materials such as flower petals and moss pressed into clay. They last one week for local Wakes Week celebrations. If you were in Ashford-in-the-Water in June 2019, you might remember this one celebrating 70 Years of National Parks. Thanks for sending it in, Steve Sharratt. Did ‘ewe’ know? This cheeky lamb is a Derbyshire gritstone breed. We use this photo when it’s lambing time, in March and April, and remind people to keep dogs on leads. About 400,000 sheep live in the Peak District National Park – that’s about ten sheep to every resident.

Google Doodle

On 17 April 2014, we became the first national park in the UK to be featured as the Google Doodle! It was our 63rd birthday and we were so excited. We celebrated it across our Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus channels – spot the one that is no longer a thing!

Our social timeline

We’ve been on:

Twitter since October 2008

@peakdistrict

Facebook since August 2013

/peakdistrictnationalpark

Instagram since June 2016

/peakdistrictnationalpark

You can write to us at: ParkLife team, Peak District National Park office, Aldern House, Baslow Road, Bakewell, Derbyshire, DE45 1AE. We read all your letters but we aren’t able to respond personally.