Buxton -- in pictures, BBC Radio Derby, accessed July 2009 Located close to the county boundary with Cheshire to the west and Staffordshire to the south, Buxton is described as '' the gateway to the Peak District National Park ''.
About, History of Buxton, accessed June 2009 The town largely grew in importance in the late 18th century when it was developed by the Dukes of Devonshire, with a second a hundred years later as the people visited to use the healing properties of the waters.