Around the National Park

The area around the Peak District National Park is important to the experience of the National Park itself. Blacka is on the edge of the Peak District so visitors are more aware than many of the attractions of the rural fringe to the east. Some of it is so fine that it deserves to be designated as, say, an AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty). The views towards Holmesfield with its church and green fields add considerably to one's enjoyment of Blacka and deserve a greater level of protection than did the area around Whitelow Lane now blighted with Fairthorn. I still await replies to my latest letters to the council on the subject of that monstrosity