===Development of tourism===The area has been a tourist destination for centuries, with an early tourist description of the area, "De Mirabilibus Pecci" or "The Seven Wonders of the Peak" by Thomas Hobbes, being published in 1636.
Teorije so za izpeljavo imena Peak District vključuje idejo, da je prišel iz "Pecsaetan" ali "peaklanders", po anglosaškem plemenu, ki je poseljujevalo osrednji in severni del območja v 6. stoletju našega štetja.