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| Introduction and Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Desolate and Wonderful | |
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| Land of Wonders | |
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| Charles Cotton's Seven Wonders | |
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| Myth and Reality: Daniel Defoe | |
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| Boundaries | |
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| Landscapes of Stone and Mineral: History and Myth | |
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| Two Peaks | |
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| Stone Circles and Eco-Warriors | |
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| Caves and Caverns | |
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| Landslips and Legends | |
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| Quarries and Lorries | |
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| Lead Mining and its Legacy | |
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| Mineral Wealth: Fluorspar and Blue John | |
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| Building: Tradition and Innovation | |
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| The Dark Peak: Images of Desolation | |
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| Man-made Moors | |
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| In the Shadow of Kinder: Fictional Landscapes | |
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| The Hard Way up | |
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| Gilchrist of "Milton": Fantasy and Naturalism | |
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| "Sodom in Derbyshire" | |
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| The "Navel of England" | |
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| The White Peak: A Working Landscape | |
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| The Eyam Plague: History and Legend | |
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| The Coming of the Mills | |
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| The Secret Valley | |
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| A Derbyshire Oliver Twist?: Robert Blincoe | |
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| Fact into Fiction: Michael Armstrong | |
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| The Minstrel of the Peak | |
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| The Railways and Ruskin | |
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| Castles, Great Houses and Hovels: A Brief and Selective Social History | |
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| Normal Power: Peveril Castle | |
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| The Great Landlords | |
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| The Seventh Wonder: Chatsworth | |
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| Chatsworth in Culture and Politics | |
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| Jane Austen and Chatsworth | |
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| Haddon Hall: Romantic Revival | |
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| The Vanished Dukery: Glossop Hall | |
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| Jane Eyre's Two Houses | |
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| The Other Peakrils | |
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| The Imprint of Religion: Churches and Preachers | |
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| Early Churches: Bakewell, Tideswell and Ashbourne | |
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| Dissent and its Architecture | |
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| Wesley | |
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| Adam Bede: The Methodist as Heroine | |
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| Catholic Martyrs | |
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| Land of Water: Rivers, Reservoirs and Spas | |
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| The Compleat Dove | |
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| Reservoirs, Two Drowned Villages and a Tin Town | |
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| Two Modern Myths: Dogs and Dam Busters | |
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| The Longdendale Reservoirs | |
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| The Drowned Mansion of the Goyt: A Lesser Reservoir | |
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| Flowing and Falling Water | |
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| The "Mountain Spa": Buxton | |
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| The Peak's Other Spa | |
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| Learning the Landscape: The Struggle for Access | |
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| The Mass Trespass | |
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| A Free Man on Sunday | |
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| Wider Still and Wider | |
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| Social Climbers | |
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| Enter the Proletarian Climbers | |
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| Pictures of the Peak | |
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| The Towns Around: The Fringes of the Peak | |
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| Gothic Glossopdale | |
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| "You'll Never Leave": The League of Gentlemen | |
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| Buxton: Glyndebourne of the North? | |
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| Leek: William Morris and Thomas Wardle | |
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| Ashbourne and the Johnson Circle | |
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| Rousseau in the Dales | |
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| Popular Culture: Feasts, Fairs and Food | |
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| The Year of Rituals | |
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| Shrovetide | |
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| Easter | |
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| Maytime | |
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| Well-Dressing | |
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| Wakes | |
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| Rush-Bearing | |
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| Christmas and Carols | |
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| Myth and Legend: Robin Hood | |
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| Murder Most Foul | |
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| The Last Wolf | |
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| Peak Fare | |
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| Champions of the Peak: Conservation and Heritage | |
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| In Trust | |
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| The Campaign to Protect Rural England | |
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| The National Park Authority | |
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| The Yo-Hos | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index of Literary & Historical Names | |
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| Index of Places & Landmarks | |