Wye Head

Wye Head
Wye Head
	Wye Head rising
	Wye Head Location within Derbyshire
OS grid reference	SK049731
District	High Peak;
Shire county	Derbyshire;
Region	East Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BUXTON
Postcode district	DE56
Police	Derbyshire
Fire	Derbyshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
	List of places UK England Derbyshire 53°15′18″N 1°55′41″W / 53.255°N 1.928°W

Wye Head is an area in Derbyshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Burbage, on the outskirts of Buxton. It is so named because of a major rising of the River Wye, which carries much of the water from Poole's Cavern.^[1]

References

^ Huggett, Richard J. (2011). Fundamentals of Geomorphology (3rd ed.). Routledge. p. 389. ISBN 9780203860083. Retrieved 8 May 2012.

This Derbyshire location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[huggett-1] Huggett, Richard J. (2011). Fundamentals of Geomorphology (3rd ed.). Routledge. p. 389. ISBN 9780203860083. Retrieved 8 May 2012.

[1]