The stunning Derbyshire landscape has long attracted film and television directors alike, and has served as the backdrop for Jane Eyre, Harry Potter and Last of the Summer Wine.
Now it stars in new BBC drama The Village, which launched on Easter Sunday and is continuing to pull in millions of viewers every Sunday. You can see it tonight at 9am.
The gritty drama, penned by BAFTA-winning writer Peter Moffat, captures on camera the rolling Peak District.
The acclaimed series was filmed in a number of Derbyshire locations including Hayfield, with a population of 2,900; Chapel-en-le-Frith; Edale and Glossop.
The village of Charlesworth also features, as does Tatton Park in Cheshire's Peak District.
The picturesque spots were cherry-picked to create the fictional community in the six-part drama, which takes us back to 1914 and stars British treasures John Simm, Maxine Peake and Nico Mirallegro.
As soon as The Village executive producer John Griffin visited Hayfield, he knew he had found the main location.
He told Midlands Business News: "The Peak District is the perfect backdrop for The Village. The spectacular landscape truly is the star of the series, with its rugged moorland, peaks, valleys and picturesque villages.
"The beautiful countryside and the villages that we are filming in - we use components from a couple of key villages to make up our fictional village - are unspoilt and work perfectly.
"In Hayfield we have used the high street and shop fronts as our village high street, but have changed and dressed some of the shop fronts to make our period village - the current tea shop became our local drapers' shop".
Cameras rolled from September to December last year, capturing The Old Vicarage, The Royal Hotel, cricket club and library.
One of the rear walls of The Royal Hotel doubles up as the entrance to The Lamb, the starring pub in The Village. And the café of Andrew and Deidra Stables is transformed into the drapers, while the exterior of their home next door becomes the local butchers.
Another familiar Hayfield site is the fruit and veg shop on Kinder Road.
Other local landmarks filmed outside of Hayfield were Edale train station, Tatton Park Farm in Knutsford, Glossop Church, Far Coombes Farm, Charlesworth and The Playhouse Theatre in Chapel-en-le-Frith.
And Middleton Farm is in reality owned by a farmer who has spent his entire life there. It has a public footpath going across the land (Peak and Northern Footpath, signpost 349), which can be enjoyed by Penine Way walkers as they pass by.
Visit Peak District & Derbyshire, the area's official tourist board, is hoping the new BBC series will raise the profile of the area, and boost the local economy.
The Royal Hotel in Hayfield told the BBC it has already seen an upturn in business since the series began.
And many of the real-life village shops which were dressed for shooting have kept their early 20th century shop fronts post-filming.
David James, chief executive of Visit Peak District & Derbyshire, said: "Over the years the area's superb and varied landscapes have been much in demand for everything from Hollywood blockbusters such as Pride and Prejudice and The Duchess to television dramas such as Jane Eyre and Last of the Summer Wine.
"Television viewers can see parts of the Peak District in BBC 1's new three-part supernatural thriller, The Secret of Crickley Hall, which was filmed here earlier this year.
"Not only does filming bring in income while film crews are here, by supporting local accommodation providers and a range of other service-focused enterprises, it also attracts further business, an extra economic boost and a higher profile for the area when, and after, a television series or film is transmitted.
"Tourists are always keen to see where their favourite programme or movie was made, and we hope that The Village will bring more staying visitors to the area in the future. We wish the series every success."
