Rhiannon - I might be wrong but I'm sure that Alan Titchmarsh covered somethng about this in his programme British Isles: A Natural History. Episode 3, He explained how the landscape was carved by a glacier and because of the way of rainfall and drainage in the area, was never suitable for farming or grazing, therefore never attracted settlers. This may explain the lack of Neolithic sites. There's a link that might be useful:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradi[...]ritishisles/prog_summary.shtml
I'm guessing that the difference between that area and Dartmoor is that you couldn't really skirt round Dartmoor and had travel through it, from East to West and vice versa, encouraging eventual settlement, where as you could skirt up either side of the Bleaklow region and so it was avoided. That is a guess though!
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