At the moorland region, you find the giant groundsels and lobelias common in the high altitude mountain regions of eastern Africa. |
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Marsden Moor supports large numbers of moorland birds such as the golden plover, red grouse, curlew and the diminutive twite. |
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The moorland blaze has come at a bad time for ground-nesting birds such as golden plovers, curlews, lapwings and merlins, a rare bird of prey. |
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More than 300 hectares of moorland will be replanted to restore the moors to their natural beauty. |
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Ninety-four per cent of access routes in the National Park cross farmed land and moorland areas. |
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The open but complex moorland of Ilkley is thought to be one of the most challenging orienteering areas around. |
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Varieties suggested would be natural to the moorland fringe such as rowan, birch, holly and hawthorn. |
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The machair is an internationally rare habitat that is formed when sand is blown onto peat moorland. |
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This is a landscape of woodlands, forests, reservoirs and farmsteads scattered below high moorland ridges which reach their peak at Shining Tor. |
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This forest consisted of large preserves of woodland, open areas of common land and rough moorland with a scattering of farms and villages. |
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A driver who escaped without a scratch when his car plunged 50 feet down a moorland ravine has told of his amazing escape. |
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The route is a combination of moorland tracks and field paths though no great climbs are involved. |
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Forest paths, moorland tracks and riverside footpaths, with some short sections along quiet country lanes. |
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The race is run over 22 miles and takes competitors through open moorland and on farm tracks, footpaths and roads. |
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A remote Dales village which has never been connected to a mains water supply has been linked up to a moorland spring. |
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Its extensive tracts of open moorland interspersed with small lochs made it a rich refuge for wildlife. |
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At the end of the power station fence, go through a gate and continue uphill, across open moorland. |
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If you wander too close to their nest sites on the moorland, they will dive-bomb and are not afraid to make contact with heads. |
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I have walked in woodland and wet meadow, on moorland and mountain, and I have never had any problems whatsoever. |
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Some years ago, while trekking over the peaty moorland of the Western Isles, I stumbled upon it quite by accident. |
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The breast of grouse was slightly overdone and a bit dry, but had the intriguingly complex flavours of wild moorland feeding. |
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The high spot, literally, is the Slieve Bloom mountains, an expanse of moorland with views across five counties. |
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But perhaps more than ever there are many moorland paths overgrown with the heather. |
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Location managers are keen to capitalise on county's moorland, coast, dales and historic capital city. |
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The path leads straight to the sombre gritstone memorial on the edge of the moorland spur. |
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This will be replaced by mixed open forest and heathland, helping integrate the moorland, which has special protection status, to the forest. |
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Bronze Age discoveries have been made on a Pembrokeshire headland following a moorland fire last summer. |
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The more open moorland included complex areas of wetlands, copses and pits in which detailed navigation skills were a premium. |
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Away from the coast, moorland supports smaller numbers of birds, including waders which are drawn to the bog pools. |
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A badly injured hang-glider was airlifted to hospital after crashing on the moorland above Whitworth. |
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The famous Surprise View is a great hollow with valleys leading north and south and moorland roads climbing out. |
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There's more moorland and open heath here than woodland, more gorse and heather than noble oak. |
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The Trust has more than 43,000 volunteers helping to look after the organisation's castles, stately homes, cliff tops and moorland. |
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My first thoughts were that this was rather a selfish attitude, calculated to preserve their little bit of moorland. |
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A bridegroom-to-be was among six men injured on a stag night out when a mini bus crashed on a moorland road. |
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Hiking up the mountain, you pass through forest, bamboo and moorland, before being rewarded at the peak with superb views. |
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Leave the car park and follow the signposted path through mixed woodland to a gate which gives access to open, rising moorland. |
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After crossing yellow meadows full of buttercups, the ponies struggle to keep their footing on rough moorland. |
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The hike takes in woodland and moorland and attempts to avoid anything difficult underfoot. |
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It gives new rights to walk over private land that can be classed as mountain, moorland, heathland or down. |
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Rare plant life which has perished includes cloudberry, a sub-arctic bramble, which thrives on moorland peat bogs. |
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It is a land of mountains, moorland and hill pasture, with steep river valleys and cliffs. |
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One of the worst areas was beyond Smithills where several moorland roads were snowbound, and cattle trucks have been marooned. |
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Then, over the high, exposed moorland road, with a backdrop of hills still decorated by shrinking dollops of snow, the race began to splinter. |
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Set in open moorland, 1500 feet above sea level, with hills rising steeply behind, it was indeed remote. |
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More must be done to prevent moorland in the North West being destroyed by fire, according to a new report. |
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The 14-year-old Moorland Line is the boundary that defines moorland within England's less favoured pastures. |
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Conditions on the moors are being monitored throughout the area in the wake of a number of moorland blazes. |
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Two weeks ago hot weather brought moorland fires across the country including parts of the Peak District. |
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The sun crept over the horizon, spreading radiant golden light across the rolling moorland that surrounded Whitby. |
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Other walks will also include rural rambles, a walk around the town centre, short strolls, hard moorland walks and family walks. |
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The terrain includes cart tracks, stone stiles, rough moorland and broken stone tracks. |
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The lake, surrounded by wooded hills and heather moorland was beautiful enough. |
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After the hot summer days the mist sometimes hung over the moorland as if a whole lake were behind the old trees, among which the crows and the daws were fluttering. |
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Breeds on wetlands, moorland, water-side meadows, both coastal and inland. |
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The Act will open up the countryside further giving walkers the right to roam over much of the country's moorland, mountains, heath, downland and registered common land. |
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Soon the track bends to the right as you pass open moorland. |
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But it also highlights the special relationship between the in-bye pasture, which is used by some birds for feeding, whilst the heather moorland is used for nesting. |
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Prolonged dry periods and seasonal high winds in spring help create ideal conditions for wildfire to spread quickly through highly-flammable moorland undergrowth. |
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The path goes for almost four miles through undulating moorland with no views of the sea and you pass several lochans, where divers nest in the summer. |
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Grouse numbers are up by 25 per cent on last year and conditions have been ideal for other rare moorland game birds, such as the black grouse and grey partridge. |
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Ambitious schemes are also in the pipeline to replant some of the park's lost woodlands and also to restore large areas of grasslands, bogs and moorland. |
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From last Sunday, parts of England introduced open access to the moors with some 80 per cent of the newly available land made up of rare heather moorland. |
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Access rights will not take effect until 2005, when definitive maps of the mountains, moorland, heath, and common land covered by the legislation will be complete. |
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Most of the standing and merchantable timber in Oldham was found on the private holdings as opposed to the common lands, which were largely moorland. |
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The moon peeked through the snow clouds as we tramped the palely gleaming moorland tracks and stood, still and silent, on the white side roads among the conifers. |
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Go through the gate and out of the forest and on to open moorland. |
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The road runs over a stretch of moorland and drops into a narrow valley. |
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The forest contains a number of sites of special scientific interest, primarily associated with the upland moorland environment. |
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Shooting takes place on grouse moors, areas of moorland in northern England and Scotland. |
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This may be an adaptation to camouflage them in moorland with higher grass and sedge content and less heather. |
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It is a sedentary species, breeding across northern Eurasia in moorland and bog areas near to woodland, mostly boreal. |
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Best looked for on farmland and moorland with nearby forestry or scattered trees. |
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The village is located on the B3212 road between Yelverton and Two Bridges and is surrounded by moorland. |
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Many of them are old navigational aids, needed because of the remoteness of the moorland and its typically bad weather. |
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It lies at the junction of the Monks' Path and a track used by moorland farmers that went from Hexworthy to South Brent. |
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This part of the name derives from the Old English for a farmstead in moorland, referring to the town's situation on the edge of Dartmoor. |
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Paths are generally well signposted, although a map is also needed, and a compass may sometimes be needed on high moorland. |
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Endangered lapwing, curlew, golden plover, ring ouzel, merlin, black grouse and grey partridge all fare far better on moorland with gamekeepers. |
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Flying in unpowered sailplanes would have been a unique way to enjoy the beauty of the moorland from above but it wasn't to be for us. |
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Head for the north coast or discover the wild beauty of Bodmin Moor, which featured in the popular Poldark TV series, on its moorland footpaths. |
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At that time a cold reversal caused a replacement of much of the arboreal vegetation with Magellanic moorland and Alpine species. |
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Large areas of heather moorland in the Pennines are managed for driven shooting of wild red grouse. |
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The Pennine landscape is high moorland in upland areas, indented by fertile valleys of the region's rivers. |
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The flora of the country is varied incorporating both deciduous and coniferous woodland and moorland and tundra species. |
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Many of the higher fells are rocky, while moorland predominates at lower altitudes. |
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In some areas precipitation has contributed to poor soils, resulting in part in moorland landscapes that characterize much of the range. |
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Flora in the Pennines is adapted to moorland and subarctic landscapes and climates. |
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The flora found there can be found in other areas of moorland in Northern Europe and some species are also found in areas of tundra. |
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The moorland is capped with many exposed granite hilltops known as tors, providing habitats for Dartmoor wildlife. |
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The climate at the time was warmer than today, and much of today's moorland was covered with trees. |
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Cornwall and West Devon's landscape is of rocky coastline and high moorland, notably at Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor. |
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The boundary between tundra and moorland constantly shifts with climate change. |
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A variety of distinct habitat types are found in different world regions of moorland. |
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Burning of moorland has been practised for a number of reasons, for example when grazing is insufficient to control growth. |
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In Erin Hunter's Warriors series, one of the four Clans, WindClan, lives in the moorland alone. |
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Further south, the hills give way to areas of rolling moorland, some of which have been covered by forestry plantations to form Kielder Forest. |
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The high moorland plateau of the Dark Peak and the high ridges of the White Peak are the sources of many rivers. |
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The Kinder Trespass in 1932 was a landmark in the campaign for national parks and open access to moorland in Britain. |
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The landscape is principally granite moorland in the west, and chalk and limestone downland and clay vales in the east. |
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Exmoor is loosely defined as an area of hilly open moorland in west Somerset and north Devon in South West England. |
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The bedrock and more recent superficial deposits are covered in part by moorland which is supported by wet, acid soil. |
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Sheep have grazed on the moors for more than 3,000 years, shaping much of the Exmoor landscape by feeding on moorland grasses and heather. |
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The moorland habitat is also home to hundreds of species of birds and insects. |
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Other tourist attractions include moorland, country gardens, museums, historic and prehistoric sites, and wooded valleys. |
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The centre of the island is moorland and the island's main industries have been peat extraction and limestone quarrying. |
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There are also populations of various moorland birds such as curlew, snipe and golden plover. |
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An overwhelmingly rural and mainly agricultural region, the Southern Uplands are partly forested and contain many areas of open moorland. |
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These are more rounded and undulating, clad in moorland and rough, tussocky grassland. |
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Large areas of forestry and open moorland also contribute to the amenity of the landscape. |
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To the north are the Lliw uplands which are mainly open moorland, reaching the foothills of the Black Mountain. |
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Caithness is a land of open, rolling farmland, moorland and scattered settlements. |
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The hen harrier is a bird of open habitats such as heather moorland and extensive agriculture. |
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Pembrokeshire's wildlife is diverse, with marine, estuary, ancient woodland, moorland and farmland habitats all within the county. |
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Apart from these areas of high moorland the county has attractive rolling rural scenery and villages with thatched cob cottages. |
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The centre of the island is largely moorland covered with heather, and cultivation is confined to the coasts. |
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They are gamebirds and large numbers were shot in the past in moorland areas. |
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It is the dominant plant in most heathland and moorland in Europe, and in some bog vegetation and acidic pine and oak woodland. |
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Heather honey is a highly valued product in moorland and heathland areas, with many beehives being moved there in late summer. |
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The southern end of the island is covered by the heather moorland of Wingletang Down. |
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They are less common in the Southern Hemisphere, with the largest being the Magellanic moorland, comprising some 44,000 square kilometres. |
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In Lancashire they were built on the rivers and streams descending from the Pennines and Rossendale moorland. |
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They are found on all continents except Antarctica and in all environments except deserts, though their typical habitat is moorland. |
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Many of the species only occur on upland moorland, tied to features unique to the habitat. |
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North of the area defined by Wainwright the countryside takes on a moorland character, gradually declining toward the Solway Firth. |
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Expeditions into the group via the extreme eastern valleys result in long walks over unfrequented moorland. |
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High and rocky towards the centre of the Lake District, the Southern Fells progressively take on a moorland character toward the south west. |
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Much of High Furness consists of moorland, mountain or woodland environments. |
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The South Pennines is a region of moorland and hill country in Northern England lying towards the southern end of the Pennines. |
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The moorland is surrounded by the towns of Bolton, Chorley, Darwen, Horwich, Ramsbottom, Haslingden, and Oswaldtwistle. |
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Parts of the moorland were within the Royal Hunting Forests in the Middle Ages. |
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On the unenclosed moorland, there are extensive areas of blanket bog on deep peat soils. |
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Elsewhere on the moorland there are areas of upland heath, acid grassland and upland flushes. |
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Most moorland and gritstone escarpments are in the Dark Peak and most settlements, farmland and limestone gorges are in the White Peak. |
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The moorland plateau of the Dark Peak, the high ridges of the White Peak and the South West Peak are the sources of many rivers. |
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The trail then descends to Ponden Hall, and crosses more moorland to the villages of Cowling and Lothersdale. |
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Above the village of Lambley the trail leaves the valley to cross more moorland to the A69 near the village of Greenhead. |
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The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham is only bordered by high moorland near Black Hill and is not accessible by road. |
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The National Trust is a major landowner in the district, owning extensive tracts of moorland and a number of farms, including some in Edale. |
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The county is noted for its undeveloped landscape of high moorland, now largely protected as the Northumberland National Park. |
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The great expanses of moorland around Bleaklow and Black Hill and fringed with broken outcrops of gritstone are characteristic of the area. |
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To the east of these edges is a broad band of relatively flat moorland known as the Eastern Moors. |
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The land is thus largely uninhabited moorland plateaux where almost any depression is filled with sphagnum bogs and black peat. |
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The fell lies in the middle of a large area of boggy moorland and requires a long hike to get to it from any direction. |
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Mickle Fell and surrounding moorland forms part of the Warcop Training Area, a Ministry of Defence firing range. |
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Kinder Scout is a moorland plateau and National Nature Reserve in the Dark Peak of the Derbyshire Peak District in England. |
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Topographically, it is located in the eastern moorland region of the South Pennines. |
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The water seeping from the surrounding moorland Rake Dike is the source of the River Holme. |
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The name 'Kielder Forest' is often also applied to the area of hills and remote moorland that surround the forestry plantations. |
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The 39-year-old, who has not been named,was part of a shooting party on moorland near Bridge of Gaur at Loch Rannoch,Perthshire. |
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Elsewhere the agency cites work in the Peak District and Bowland Fells has demonstrated successful peat bog and moorland restoration. |
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They will be using traditional garden dibbers to re-introduce the native moorland plants and help bring the moorlands back into good health. |
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Enjoy moorland, grassland and coniferous woodland which is home to red squirrels, the common lizard and the green hairstreak butterfly. |
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In Britain they are exclusively found in isolated moorland areas. |
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In 2003 DNPA started to subsidise moorland farmers to keep Dartmoor Ponies in an attempt to save the breed after new European legislation increased the costs of keeping them. |
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With its range of high grassy moorland, bogs, farmland and deep wooded valleys, Dartmoor also provides a range of habitats for a variety of birds, some quite rare. |
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Proponents claim that not only does heather burning help the grouse population thrive but it encourages other wildlife by creating a variety of habitats in moorland areas. |
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It is common on moist heathland, bogs and moorland throughout Britain. |
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Water supplies are sourced from several reservoirs, including Watergrove, Blackstone Edge, Greenbooth and Piethorne in Rochdale's outlying moorland. |
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Limestone scar, bracken, scrub and heather moorland can also be found. |
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This ranges from moorland grazing of sheep in the upland areas, through to improved pasture and mixed farms in the middle reaches, where dairy farming is important. |
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Administered by High Peak Borough Council from Buxton and Glossop, it is mostly composed of high moorland plateau in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park. |
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At Tan Hill the Pennine Way enters the North Pennines AONB and follows moorland tracks to the isolated settlement of Sleightholme, where the route divides. |
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The gritstone landscape of the South West Peak also supports moorland environments although the landscape supports both farming and grouse shooting. |
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High gritstone moorland extends into the South Pennines to the north. |
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A civil parish can range in area from a small village or town ward to a large tract of mostly uninhabited moorland in the Cheviots, Pennines or Dartmoor. |
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The South West Peak contains some gritstone edges and moorland similar to the Dark Peak but the landscape has farmland and pastured valleys similar to the White Peak. |
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But far more than the murmuring and insecty air of the moorland does the wet chirk-chirking of the living shore give one the idea of crowded and multitudinous life. |
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The region has a diverse landscape that includes maritime cliffs and extensive moorland that contains a number of rare species of flora and fauna. |
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A large amount of open moorland has been made accessible due to the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 giving walkers the right to roam over the moorland. |
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Unlike many areas of moorland in the north of England, the moors here are not managed for grouse shooting and consist largely of rough grassland and peat bog. |
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Most of the Pennine landscape is characterised by upland areas of high moorland indented by more fertile river valleys, although the landscape varies in different areas. |
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The rounded moorland hills of the West Pennine Moors are generally lower in height than the higher moorland plateaux of the main Pennine range to the east. |
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The moorland includes Withnell, Anglezarke and Rivington Moors in the extreme west, Darwen and Turton Moors, Oswaldtwistle Moors and Holcombe Moors. |
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The treeless moorland gives no shelter and modern Pennine transport can find it a formidable barrier when roads are blocked by snow for several days. |
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The Huddersfield Narrow Canal and the Manchester to Huddersfield railway pass through the Standedge Tunnels and the A62 road crosses the moorland at Standedge. |
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The hardy constitution enables a ewe to mother and rear her lambs whilst feeding mainly on the poor upland grasses and heathers found on her native moorland. |
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The lower slopes are forested, but the upper portion is moorland. |
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A gentler return can be made across moorland, by way of the Burnmoor Tarn. |
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Wainwright thus excluded the high moorland falling eastward to the M6 Motorway, although later writers such as Birkett have included everything to the park boundary. |
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The Reserve includes a visitor centre at Burrafirth, in the old lighthouse shore station, as well as a boardwalk that extends out onto the moorland. |
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Yell has many of the usual plants found in northern European moorland, especially heather in abundance, including two carnivorous plants, the butterwort and the sundew. |
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Merlins inhabit fairly open country, such as willow or birch scrub, shrubland, but also taiga forest, parks, grassland such as steppe and prairies, or moorland. |
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The central spine of the peninsula is mostly hilly moorland. |
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Sightseeing, walking, cycling and mountain biking taking in Exmoor's dramatic heritage coastline and moorland countryside scenery are the main attractions. |
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Uncultivated heath and moorland cover about a quarter of Exmoor landscape. |
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The gritstone and shale of the Dark Peak supports heather moorland and blanket bog environments, with rough sheep pasture and grouse shooting being the main land uses. |
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When moorland is overgrazed, woody vegetation is often lost, being replaced by coarse, unpalatable grasses and bracken, with a greatly reduced fauna. |
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The moorland catchment area around these is part of the Peak District National Park and is extensively used for leisure pursuits such as walking and cycling. |
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The rural landscape varies from arable farmland in the flat lands to the south of Derby, to upland pasture and moorland in the high gritstone uplands of the southern Pennines. |
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Moving south, the island of North Uist is a stunning blend of beaches, machair lands and freshwater lochs interrupted by rolling dark moorland hills. |
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Yet more techniques will be demonstrated, including the navigation technique of a Dakar-style roadbook over the 80 or so miles of forest tracks and moorland covered. |
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Blank An Australian Jabiru two-seater plane scanned the beach, open sea, nearby Westerloch and surrounding moorland north of Wick yesterday but drew a blank. |
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It is now the first moorland cross on the eastern end of the Monks' Path, though it is thought that another one used to exist nearer to the edge of the moor. |
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