Rake: a word common in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and the Lakes, which has been much misunderstood.
"Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England"
W. P. Haskett Smith
Dale: curiously used in Derbyshire for each separate section of a river valley, which elsewhere would form only one dale.
"Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England"
W. P. Haskett Smith
We have noted particulars of the ceremony as carried out at Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews