PEAK FILM & LITERATURE
Peak Experience
- Berlie Doherty
- D.H. Lawrence
- Haddon by starlight
- Hadfield is Royston Vasey
- Jane Eyre
- Jean Jacques Rousseau and Oswald Mosley take political refuge
- Meet Berlie Doherty
- Peak Practice
- Peter Riley
- Pride and Prejudice
- Rudyard Kipling
- Samuel Johnson and George Eliot
- Sherlock Holmes, Sir Walter Scott and cave-dwelling rope makers
- St. Michael and All Angels, Birchover
- Stephen Booth
- Stephen Booth reveals how the Peak District inspires him
- The Dam Busters
- The Other Boleyn Girl
- Through England on a Side Saddle: Women Writers of the Peak
- William Congreve, Thomas Moore and Lord Byron
- William Wordsworth and The Compleat Angler
- Year of Wonders
Peak Film & Literature
Front Row of the Peak
A star-studded journey around the Peak District’s movies, novels and TV series
Peak Practice
Filming Jane Eyre at Haddon Hall
League of Gentlemen
Pride and Prejudice
Scared to LiveWith its rugged crags, soft valleys and dramatic lighting, the Peak District
looms large on our screens. Great authors have been inspired here for centuries.
From Jane Austen to Stephen Booth, Charlotte Brontë, Berlie Doherty, William Wordsworth to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Now actors and directors come too. Comic romance Pride and Prejudice, dramatic Jane Eyre, WWII classic The Dam Busters, doctor drama Peak Practice, hit comedy The League of Gentlemen are all filmed in the Peak District.
The Peak District hosted more film stars in autumn 2006, as crews move in to
shoot The Other Boleyn Girl, starring Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman.
See for yourself the places that star in films, books and TV. And enjoy blazing
your own trail through our creative and inspiring landscape.
Downloadable Guides and Trails
Hathersage Audio Trail
Explore the connections Hathersage has with Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice as well as some of the village's
ancient places (hosted by Moors for the Future - external link).
Hope to Bamford Audio Trail
Take a stroll with a Roman medic, an Anglo-Saxon thane and ‘Dambuster’ Guy Gibson and discover
a long and varied history in the Derwent and Hope Valleys. You will hear dramatic
re-enactments from the past as your ghostly guides take you on this linear walk
from Hope to Bamford (hosted by Moors for the Future - external link).
Peak Experience self-guided trails
Hathersage Jane Eyre Trail (614kb)
Download the trail and step into the pages of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, visiting
locations Charlotte knew and drew inspiration for places and people in her novel.
Also explore locations from Pride & Prejudice, the film, the grave of Robin
Hood's sidekick Little John, a Romano-British village, Norman fort, historic church
and breathtaking moorlands.
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Publishers
Film and television companies
Living authors
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Acknowledgements
Written by: Georgia Litherland
Photography: Bill Bevan, CHC Choir, the Chatsworth Estate, Berlie Doherty, Haddon
Hall, Patrick Regan, Rudyard Lake Trust, David Slade, Craig Thornber, N. Tryner.
Our thanks to all the photographers, some of whom also have web sites which helped
our research.
Our thanks to: Peter Riley and Carcanet Press for extracts from Alstonefield; Canal+ for use of the Dam Busters film images; 4th Estate for extract from Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders; Visit Peak District for Jane Eyre stills; HarperCollins; Penguin Books; EM Media.
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