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Blackdown Hills Online is a website for all residents and visitors to the Blackdowns Hills.

Local MPs back ERDF bid

by | 16th June 2016

Adrian McArdle (Broadhembury) and Graham Long (Upottery) met MPs Neil Parish and Rebecca Pow in the lobby of the House of Commons yesterday and gained support for the BHPN bid to win £4.6m funding to bring the Blackdown Hills up to date with Next Generation Access to broadband

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Open letter to Government re Lock Down life in the Hills

Open letter to Government re Lock Down life in the Hills

29th April 2020

The BHPN Steering Group has today written an open letter to the Government pointing out that Connecting Devon & Somerset have still not let a contract to complete Phase 2 High speed Broadband rollout to their rural communities. They were allocated £27m eight years...

Virtual Parish Council meetings during Covid-19 pandemic

6th April 2020

FAO  ALL PARISH CLERKS in the Blackdown Hills AONB These extraordinary times of social distancing and restrictions to movement have  brought changes to the way Parish Councils conduct their business. You may already be aware that in the Statutory Instrument of the...

Agenda for General Meeting Feb 27

Agenda for General Meeting Feb 27

25th February 2020

General Meeting Thursday February 27th 2020 Broadhembury Memorial Hall at 7.30 pm, Refreshments served from 7.15pm Agenda 7.30         Introductions 7.35         Guest speaker: Giles Perkins, WSP's Head of Future Mobility in the UK (and Devon resident) will talk about...

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Blackdown Hills Online is a website for all residents and visitors to the Blackdowns Hills.

The Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, on the Somerset/Devon border, is a special place for those born here, for those who have chosen to live and work here and also for the many visitors who enjoy their unique character. The hills stretch from a steep wooded north-facing scarp which dips southwards as a flat-topped plateau, dissected by deep secret valleys. On the tops are open, windswept spaces; in the valleys villages and hamlets nestle among ancient patterns of small, enclosed fields and a maze of winding lanes lined with high hedgebanks. It is a true living landscape with a strong sense of identity where traditional land management and rural skills flourish. Sparsely populated with widely distributed communities, it is quite unlike the nearby market towns.