Totley Approach

Strawberry Lee Lane branches off from Penny Lane and Hillfoot Road and is the approach to Blacka from Totley coming past The Cricket Inn (now faddishly and unnecessarily shortened to The Cricket). It's a fine old fashioned lane and goes through farmland and fields getting increasingly wild and remote.

Hallfield Farm, under its new owners is getting a facelift, the drive and its surround being landscaped. Views here are very fine.........

The one blot on the landscape is unfortunately a very big one, another badge of dishonour for the planners......

It's to be hoped that the land along the approach to Blacka does not have its vegetation too tidied up. Little pleasures are to be found in the wildness of native plants and trees as in the honeysuckle here....


Moss Road, branching off, is a public byway, for too long a temptation for sensation seeking motor bikers but this has now been officially discouraged. It winds round the back of Bole Hill to join Wimble Holme Hill in the direction of Stony Ridge.
The car park at the end of Strawberry Lee Lane is less used than the access points on Hathersage Road, although evening use by younger elements has become common lately.They tend to sit in steamed up cars with loud music playing adding nothing to the appeal of the vicinity. Their cultural activities sometimes extend to a trip beyond the car door to leave food and drink wrappers scattered around and their literary efforts on the gates........