Buffer Zone ?

It's possible to distinguish varying zones between the city and the national park and to fancy each one has a definable character. But when you look more closely it's near impossible to be precise, so much is interchangeable and overlapping. Some have even gone so far as to describe Black Moor itself as a buffer between the city and the Peak District. I'm not in favour of this and don't see it as valid. Blacka has its own character and some of it shades in with the areas to the south, west and north.

But the farmland to the east between Blacka and the housing of the suburbs does operate as a kind of protective layer. It's generally not intensively farmed, often used for rough grazing by ponies and in some parts has gone delightfully wild.

Let's hope that no landowner suddenly gets a whim to 'improve' this land. It's an essential part of Blacka's appeal.