Editing Peak District (section)

===Rivers, reservoirs and canals===
[[File:Rivers of the Peak District.png|alt=|thumb|Rivers around the Peak District]]
Several rivers have sources on the moorland plateaux of the Dark Peak and the high ridges of the White Peak. Many rivers in the Dark Peak and outer fringes were dammed to create reservoirs for supplying drinking water. Streams were dammed to provide headwater for [[watermill|water driven mills]]; [[weir]]s were built for the same purpose. The reservoirs of the [[Longdendale Chain]] were completed in February 1877 to provide compensation water, ensuring a continuous flow in the [[River Etherow]], which was essential for local industry and provided drinking water for Manchester.<ref name="Quayle"/> In a report for the [[Manchester City Council|Manchester Corporation]], [[John Frederick Bateman]] wrote in 1846:

{{Blockquote|Within ten or twelve miles of Manchester, and six or seven miles from the existing reservoirs at Gorton, there is this tract of mountain land abounding with springs of the purest quality. Its physical and geological features offer such peculiar features for the collection, storage and supply of water for the use of the towns in the plains below that I am surprised that they have been overlooked.
|John Frederick Bateman<ref name="Quayle">{{Cite book |last=Quayle |first=Tom |title=Manchester's Water: The Reservoirs in the Hills |year=2006 |publisher=[[Tempus Publishing]] |location=Stroud |isbn=0-7524-3198-6 |page=15}}</ref>
}}

The western Peak District is drained by the Etherow, the [[River Goyt|Goyt]] and the [[River Tame, Greater Manchester|Tame]], all tributaries of the [[River Mersey]]. The north-east is drained by tributaries of the [[River Don, South Yorkshire|River Don]]. Of the tributaries of the [[River Trent]] draining south and east, the [[River Derwent, Derbyshire|River Derwent]] is the most prominent. It rises on Bleaklow just east of [[Glossop]] and flows through the [[Upper Derwent Valley]], where it is constrained by the [[Howden Reservoir|Howden]], [[Derwent Reservoir (Derbyshire)|Derwent]] and [[Ladybower reservoir]]s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bevan |first=Bill |title=The Upper Derwent: 10,000 Years in a Peak District Valley |year=2004 |publisher=[[Tempus Publishing]] |location=Stroud |isbn=0-7524-2903-5 |pages=141–159 }}</ref> The reservoirs of the Upper Derwent Valley were built from the early to mid-20th century to supply drinking water to the [[East Midlands]] and South Yorkshire.

The [[River Noe|rivers Noe]] and the [[River Wye, Derbyshire|Wye]] are tributaries.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/content.php?categoryId=1593 |title=River Derwent |publisher=Peak District Online |year=2009 |access-date=1 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127030700/http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/content.php?categoryId=1593 |archive-date=27 November 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[River Manifold]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cressbrook.co.uk/features/manifold.php |title=The Manifold is a sister river to the Dove |work=Peak District Information |publisher=Cressbrook Multimedia |year=2008 |access-date=1 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511192326/http://www.cressbrook.co.uk/features/manifold.php |archive-date=11 May 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[River Dove, Central England|River Dove]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cressbrook.co.uk/features/dove.php |title=The Dove is the major river of the South Peak |work=Peak District Information |publisher=Cressbrook Multimedia |year=2008 |access-date=1 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509075028/http://www.cressbrook.co.uk/features/dove.php |archive-date=9 May 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> in the south-west, whose sources are on [[Axe Edge Moor]], flow into the Trent. The [[River Dane]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cressbrook.co.uk/features/dane.php |title=The Dane flows west into Cheshire |work=Peak District Information |publisher=Cressbrook Multimedia |year=2008 |access-date=1 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027151036/http://www.cressbrook.co.uk/features/dane.php |archive-date=27 October 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> flows into the [[River Weaver]] in Cheshire.

[[Image:Bugsworth 058079.jpg|thumb|right|upright|The Bugsworth Basin on the Peak Forest Canal]]
There are no canals in the national park, although the [[Standedge Tunnels]] on the [[Huddersfield Narrow Canal]] run underneath the extreme north of it. Outside the park, waters from the Dark Peak feed the [[Macclesfield Canal|Macclesfield]], [[Ashton Canal|Ashton]], and Huddersfield Narrow Canals and waters from the White Peak fed the [[Cromford Canal]]. The [[Peak Forest Canal]] brought [[Lime (material)|lime]] from the quarries at [[Dove Holes]] for the construction industry. It terminated at [[Bugsworth Basin]] and the journey was completed using the [[Peak Forest Tramway]].

The Cromford Canal, from [[Cromford]] to the [[Erewash Canal]], served lead mines at [[Wirksworth]] and [[Sir Richard Arkwright]]'s cotton mills. The [[Caldon Canal]] from [[Froghall]] was built to transport limestone from quarries at Cauldon Low for the iron industry and flints for the pottery industry.<ref name="Caldon Canal">{{Cite web |title=Caldon Canal |url=https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/canal-and-river-network/caldon-canal |website=Canal River Trust |access-date=1 October 2017 |archive-date=17 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617014452/https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/canal-and-river-network/caldon-canal |url-status=live }}</ref>