NEW PEAK DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK BOUNDARY PLINTH AND MILLSTONE AT BLAZE HILL, RAINOW - JUST OUTSIDE BOLLINGTON

The Bollington Initiative Trust is delighted to have completed a project to erect a new National Park boundary marker at the foot of Blaze Hill, just outside Bollington. Ever since the Peak District National Park was established in 1951 there has been no recognition of its boundary so close to Bollington and this has now been rectified. The marker is made with local Kerridge stone and with a 3ft diameter millstone on the top. It is ¾ scale of the existing boundary markers on the main roads to reflect its minor road location and setting.

New Peak District Boundary Marker on Blaze Hill

The project originated as a proposal in the Bollington Tourism Plan prepared by the Bollington Destination Forum and is designed to raise the profile of the National Park in the minds of Bollington residents and businesses as well as with visitors. Using the charitable status of the Bollington Initiative Trust it has been possible to assemble the necessary finance.

We wish to thank in particular the Peak District National Park Foundation and the Peak District Communities Small Grant Fund whose grants made this project possible. We also wish to thank landowner Andrew Stubbs as well as local contractor John Drabble and Son and William Warrington, stonemason, for the high quality of their work.

An unveiling event is taking place at 4.30pm on Monday 9th May at which Cllr Andrew Gregory of Cheshire East Council and the Peak District National Park Authority board will say a few words.

For further information contact:

Graham Barrow on 01625 573443 or by email at:  graham@gbrcltd.co.uk