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Although the Pennine Way ends among the Cheviot Hills, they are not part of the Pennines, being separated from them by the Tyne Gap and the Whin Sill, along which runs Hadrian’s Wall. Conversely, although the southern end of the Pennines is commonly accepted as somewhere in the High Peak of Derbyshire, often Edale (the start of the Pennine Way), they actually extend further south to the true southern end of the Pennines in the Stoke-on-Trent area, many miles south of Edale.

So, the exact area of the Pennines is difficult to define. In terms of this book they extend no further south than Mam Tor above Edale, and not much further north than Cross Fell, the highest summit of the Pennines, lying on the eastern edge of Cumbria. Within this area is an amazing, and often frustrating, succession of landscapes fashioned from river valleys, moorlands and upland peat bogs, and penned in by a host of cities, towns and villages to form an area that weaves a rich and interesting story of industrial development together with a strong cultural and industrial heritage.