How To Use Moorland In A Sentence
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After an hour this high ground offers a panoramic view of an unspoilt, uncharted, expanse of wild heath covered moorland stretching out in all directions as far as the eye can see.
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The hikers start in tropical rainforest territory and travel through moorlands, alpine meadows and glaciers on the summit.
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n. - kind of liliaceous plant; daffodil; Literature, flower of the Elysian fields. bog asphodel, British grass-like moorland plant. asportation
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'The Bower,' far outbye on the moorland beside the Blackburn Lynn.
Border Ghost Stories
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It is a land of mountains, moorland and hill pasture, with steep river valleys and cliffs.
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Game birds, such as grouse or pheasants, are better suited to rough moorland.
Learn to Draw Countryside
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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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Game birds are defined as wild in practice and under the law when, months before the start of the shooting season, they are able to independently move in and out of large release pens, usually situated in woodland or on farmland - not "moorland" as you stated.
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In the centre of the country, the alpine moorland and montane forests of Mt. Kenya and the Aberdares conceal rare bongo antelope, red duiker, suni, bushbuck, Giant forest hog and colobus monkeys.
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It bulks above long moorland valleys, its northern face hollowed and indented by some of the finest Welsh cwms.
Country diary: Pumlumon
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'Ye can almost see my bit biggin', 'said Si, as he halted and pointed eastward of Larriston Fell to a patch of black peat and heather high on the rolling moorland.
Border Ghost Stories
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The boatswain, climbing up with marlinspikes and bunches of spunyarn rovings, or kneeling on the yard and ready to take a turn with the midship-stop, had acute and fleeting visions of his old woman and the youngsters in a moorland village.
The Nigger of the Narcissus
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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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Or in autumn when purple moorland takes on a blanket of golden patchwork.
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Towards the end of the week, however, the fresh moorland air, good food and daily excursions have worked their magic and the youngsters are in dreamland the moment their heads touch the pillow.
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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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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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Not all of the losses of moorland and rough grassland to agricultural development are the result of surface cultivation and grass seeding.
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Yorkshire is a land of many faces - from the plains and windswept moorlands to tranquil fishing villages.
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Bronte's limited world was one of moorland and governesses, big houses and class strictures, but Boylan goes further, uncovering the underbelly of Victorian society with retrospective omniscience.
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Go through the gate and out of the forest and on to open moorland.
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It is a contrast to four years ago, when nearly 2,500 competitors were rescued from flooded moorland after atrocious wet weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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Grendel this monster grim was called, march-riever {1e} mighty, in moorland living, in fen and fastness; fief of the giants the hapless wight a while had kept since the Creator his exile doomed.
Beowulf
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Lives in woodland although can also be found on rocky moorland and hillside.
Times, Sunday Times
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These exquisite, ground-hugging little flowers are the moorland pasture equivalent of woodland primroses, brought into precious bloom by a month of sunshine.
Country diary: Westgate, Weardale
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Once common species such as the snipe, lapwing and curlew have seen declines of up to 73 per cent; birds like the twite, a moorland version of the linnet, are now gone from some parts of the park.
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If you fancy your chances at bigger shows think about a registered Mountain and Moorland for a fraction of the price.
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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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The path leads straight to the sombre gritstone memorial on the edge of the moorland spur.
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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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The very spirit of the moorland, lake, brook, tarn, ghyll, and ridge breathes from his prose poetry: and well it might.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator
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Soon the track bends to the right as you pass open moorland.
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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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And from the three long uncurtained windows the beautiful stretch of meadow and moorland, the far violet of the hills, and the unchanging changefulness of cloud and sky.
The Railway Children
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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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Plans were also announced yesterday to place disinfectant mats on strategic routes across North Yorkshire, including unfenced moorland roads in areas where sheep are free to graze.
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But perhaps more than ever there are many moorland paths overgrown with the heather.
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Not content with the so-called subjugation of every terrestrial bog, rock, and moorland, he would fain discover some method of reclamation applicable to the ocean and the sky, that in due calendar time they might be brought to bud and blossom as the rose.
Steep Trails
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Mountain pansies violas growing low to the ground on moorland at Westgate, Weardale.
Country diary: Westgate, Weardale
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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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It'seems like a crazy idea, going to Britain to see the moorland.
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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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A three-month public consultation will now start on areas of mountain, moorland, heath and downland previously off-limits, but now designated open for access through the Countryside and Rights of Way Act.
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The moorland space which bore no visible definition, unbounded save by the sheep's implicit knowledge, answered something in her.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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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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After crossing yellow meadows full of buttercups, the ponies struggle to keep their footing on rough moorland.
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A fresh breeze swept over the gorze bushes of the moorland and blew into yellow and red streamers the sheet of flame that rose from a huge bonfire which was built in a direct line inland from the Haunted House.
Where Deep Seas Moan
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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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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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This species, which is endemic to marshes and moorlands located in the Ethiopian highlands, is very much like the northern lapwing, V. vanellus, found in Europe: it is a relatively tame, noisy bird with a swerving flight that feeds on the ground, making short runs and sudden stops.
Mystery bird: Spot-breasted plover, Vanellus melanocephalus
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I've been hillwalking in the North-West Highlands of Scotland, a breathtakingly beautiful landscape of mountain, lochan-jewelled moorland and coastline and on a fine day in spring as close to heaven as I ever hope to find on this earth.
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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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Had he spotted something on the rugged moorland we looked out on to?
Times, Sunday Times
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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 heather provides safe havens for ground nesting birds like curlew, lapwing, merlin, golden plover and the black grouse and the Moorland Association wants walkers to help keep the moors special.
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The lake, surrounded by wooded hills and heather moorland was beautiful enough.
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The terrain includes cart tracks, stone stiles, rough moorland and broken stone tracks.
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The most frequently encountered mammals above the treeline are Kilimanjaro tree hyrax Dendrohyrax validus (VU), grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia and eland Taurotragus oryx, which occur in the moorland, with bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus and red duiker Cephalophus natalensis being found above the treeline in places, and buffalo Syncerus caffer occasionally moves out of the forest into the moorland and grassland.
Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania
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Once common species such as the snipe, lapwing and curlew have seen declines of up to 73 per cent; birds like the twite, a moorland version of the linnet, are now gone from some parts of the park.
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In the centre of the country, the alpine moorland and montane forests of Mt. Kenya and the Aberdares conceal rare bongo antelope, red duiker, suni, bushbuck, Giant forest hog and colobus monkeys.
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A little cottage on the moorland; a rose red _vraic_ fire; Ellenor seated in a low chair, beside her a cradle; on her lap, a little baby, with wide sad eyes like hers.
Where Deep Seas Moan
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He said: ‘At the home of Richard Clarke, in Moorland Avenue, his partner and her sons were disturbed by a prowler at about 2am.’
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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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I have walked in woodland and wet meadow, on moorland and mountain, and I have never had any problems whatsoever.
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They do not return to the vast hummocky moorlands until late May or even early June.
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Like the prairies (see Bison), moorland in Britain acts as a "carbon sink", with peatland storing 3bn tonnes of carbon – equivalent to 20 years of emissions by the UK.
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Or in autumn when purple moorland takes on a blanket of golden patchwork.
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A sight of the sea, a proper draught of moorland air: it was just what we wanted.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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Rare plant life which has perished includes cloudberry, a sub-arctic bramble, which thrives on moorland peat bogs.
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moorland" water can also dissolve lead from lead pipes and may therefore be dangerous for drinking purposes unless it is specially purified.
Lessons on Soil
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Forest paths, moorland tracks and riverside footpaths, with some short sections along quiet country lanes.
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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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There's more moorland and open heath here than woodland, more gorse and heather than noble oak.
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A couple of moorland miles later we reached the relative shelter of the Clay Bank car park, said goodbye to Roseberry Topping and Captain Cook's Monument and shuffled off to our low-level car park, blown away and weak at the knees.
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The most frequently encountered mammals above the treeline are Kilimanjaro tree hyrax Dendrohyrax validus (VU), grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia and eland Taurotragus oryx, which occur in the moorland, with bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus and red duiker Cephalophus natalensis being found above the treeline in places, and buffalo Syncerus caffer occasionally moves out of the forest into the moorland and grassland.
Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania
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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 moorland is an important habitat for many rare bird species.
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Challenging walk along a cobbled lane and moorland paths.
Times, Sunday Times
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A flock of greater binoculared birders is migrating across the moorland on the track of a rare bluethroat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wild open moorland follows, with tremendous views west to the hills of Donegal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Greenshank breed here as well as other moorland birds.
A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
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An essay on the English countryside by Oliver Rackham demonstrates that medieval England had no wildwood, but instead different forms of land management even on noncultivated land: heath, fen, moorland, grassland, and woodland.
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Whernside House and Settle and the aerograph apparatus at the observatory were working almost incessantly till dawn, sending and receiving messages between this remote moorland district and London and the seat of war, as well as Bolton and Pittsburg.
The World Peril of 1910
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He said Yorkshire had one of the highest concentrations of mounted foxhounds, beagle packs and terrier and lurchermen, from moorland fox packs to ratters in Leeds and Sheffield.
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The English set up camp on the high moorland but now faced the full onslaught of torrential rain, high winds and the cold.
Times, Sunday Times
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Location managers are keen to capitalise on county's moorland, coast, dales and historic capital city.
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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 bud bloomer form has been popular in Germany for many years and was developed from a cross between Calluna vulgaris and a moorland calluna, which had grown with unopened flowers.
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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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Wild open moorland follows, with tremendous views west to the hills of Donegal.
Times, Sunday Times
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They ascended a mountain, whose enormous piles of granite, torn by many a winter tempest, projected their barren summits from a surface of moorland, on which lay a deep incrustation of snow.
The Scottish Chiefs
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The wind itself had ceased and a brilliant, deep blue sky arched high over the moorland.
The Secret Garden
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This northern part is sunlit, but to the south, past the craggy ridge of Kilmar, the moorland remains gloomy beneath cloud.
Country diary: North Hill, Cornwall
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And you can see why, because the tiny island has the lot - mountains, rugged coastline, beaches, open moorland and wooded glens.
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This moorland walk follows the distinctive waymarkers of the Pendle Way for most of its length and takes in the lofty summit of Pendle Hill, Lancashire's most celebrated ‘mountain’.
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The hikers start in tropical rainforest territory and travel through moorlands, alpine meadows and glaciers on the summit.
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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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For the first two hours the road lay through doura plantations and high grass which rose above the heads even of men mounted on camels; but as the town was approached, the doura ceased, and the troops emerged from the jungle on to an undulating moorland with occasional patches of rushes and withered grass.
The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
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Obviously, caution should be exercised when walking on tinder dry moorlands.
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Peat moorland, especially at low altitude, was used in the past for cultivation, normally potatoes but sometimes cereals.
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The Pennine and Peak moorlands are favoured areas for observing breeding ring ouzels.
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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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It is a contrast to four years ago, when nearly 2,500 competitors were rescued from flooded moorland after atrocious wet weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a land of mountains, moorland and hill pasture, with steep river valleys and cliffs.
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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 lake, surrounded by wooded hills and heather moorland was beautiful enough.
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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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The open but complex moorland of Ilkley is thought to be one of the most challenging orienteering areas around.
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The Oakeydean Burn gathers water from the moorland above, creating a Northumbrian dene, a narrow, wooded cleft snaking down the hillside.
Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland
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Bronze Age discoveries have been made on a Pembrokeshire headland following a moorland fire last summer.
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Moorland ground nesting birds, such as curlew, lapwing, merlin and golden plover, are vulnerable to disturbance from humans and dogs, as well as predators, such as crows and foxes.
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Over the hills, and once more across country, the howling wind made its way, past the old church of Saint Pierre du Bois, past the lanes to Torteval parish, and along the high road to Pleinmont, where it had full play over a wide moorland district, dotted with low masses of gorze and groups of boulders.
Where Deep Seas Moan
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Our Countryside Bill gives everyone the right to enjoy mountains, moorland, fens and common land - for the first time since the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries.
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His name attaches to the Breock Downs, a high-lying moorland rising to about 700 feet, thickly strewn with prehistoric remains.
The Cornwall Coast
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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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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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But campaign groups were angered because it would be built on greenbelt moorland.
The Sun
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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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It gives new rights to walk over private land that can be classed as mountain, moorland, heathland or down.
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The agency has drawn together flood prevention options ranging from improving upland management techniques, and the blocking of moorland drainage channels, to the construction of embankments or walls as local flood defences.
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Grendel this monster grim was called, march-riever 7 mighty, in moorland living, in fen and fastness; fief of the giants the hapless wight a while had kept since the Creator his exile doomed.
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
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A stag flanked by two female red deer, or "hinds," trotted down a steep moorland pasture toward a wood.
Masters of the Hunt
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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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Its extensive tracts of open moorland interspersed with small lochs made it a rich refuge for wildlife.
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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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Peat and moorland replaced forest naturally over a large part of the Scottish uplands a very long time ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Challenging walk along a cobbled lane and moorland paths.
Times, Sunday Times
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She wound in and out of low, prickly gorze bushes covering the moorland till she reached Pleinmont Point, then she ran down a gently sloping grass valley till she got to the sea.
Where Deep Seas Moan
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On the other side of the moorland was a stretch of twisted rocks, pitted and gouged by the advance and retreat of glaciers long gone.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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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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The more open moorland included complex areas of wetlands, copses and pits in which detailed navigation skills were a premium.
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Roseland, formerly Rosinis (_Rôz-innis_, "moorland" or
The Cornwall Coast
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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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The famous Surprise View is a great hollow with valleys leading north and south and moorland roads climbing out.
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Had he spotted something on the rugged moorland we looked out on to?
Times, Sunday Times
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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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The moorland is screened by the peaks of mountains.
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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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A badly injured hang-glider was airlifted to hospital after crashing on the moorland above Whitworth.
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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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The title to the hereditaments, now to be given in exchange, went back for many generations; but as the deeds were not to pass, Mr. Jellicorse, like an honest man, drew a line across, and made a star at one quite old enough to begin with, in which the little moorland farm in treaty now was specified.
Mary Anerley
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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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Anyone who has tried it knows that trees don't grow well on high moorland and are liable to blow over before maturity.
Times, Sunday Times
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The track to which he pointed led off the road at right angles, past the gable-end of the cottage, and thence (as it seemed to me) up into the moorland, where it was quickly lost in darkness, being but a rutted cartway overgrown with grass.
Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales
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Throw in views across moorland to the mountains and there's no better Highland hideaway.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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He settled himself, with this view, upon a patch of wild moorland at the bottom of a bank on the farm of Woodhouse, in the sequestered vale of the small river Manor, in Peeblesshire.
The Black Dwarf
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'pepperpot'; we spent nothing; we had no comforts, but from year to year, as the _sous_ were piled away in our hoard, we kept our eyes on the neighbouring acre of moorland.
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
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‘While we want people to enjoy themselves in the National Park, they should avoid lighting barbecues and fires on the open moorland,’ he said.
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Presently I was down from the moorlands and traversing the broad haugh of a river.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
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Apart from Strathmore and Buchan, the rest - and most of the central belt - was moorland, scrub, and marsh.
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O the dreary , dreary moorland! O the barren , barren shore!
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The plan was to look for wild goats on the moorland and scattered juniper woodland on the slopes adjoining the river Findhorn to see if the tribe of wild goats had any kids.
Country diary: Ruthven, Highlands
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Or in autumn when purple moorland takes on a blanket of golden patchwork.
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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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The uplands support a rich mixture of heather moorland, grassland and animals; maintaining these habitats relies upon grazing - at the right levels.
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There was mile after mile of moorland up beyond Lyndgarth, Banks knew, none of it farmed.
AFTERMATH
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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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Had he spotted something on the rugged moorland we looked out on to?
Times, Sunday Times
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The two steeplechase races will be billed as preps for the annual Far Hills Race Meet at the Moorland Hills complex in Far Hills, New Jersey, on October 26.
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Be careful about placing birds in landscapes - adding a sketch of a river bird to a moorland scene would be incorrect!
Learn to Draw Countryside
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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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Research conducted into the costs of shepherding on moorland showed that graziers were making a loss of £1.32 per hectare.
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Game birds, such as grouse or pheasants, are better suited to rough moorland.
Learn to Draw Countryside
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The terrain includes cart tracks, stone stiles, rough moorland and broken stone tracks.
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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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Some years ago, while trekking over the peaty moorland of the Western Isles, I stumbled upon it quite by accident.
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In spring and summer the sky can be full of aerial displays by some of the grandest moorland birds.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Oakeydean Burn gathers water from the moorland above, creating a Northumbrian dene, a narrow, wooded cleft snaking down the hillside.
Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland
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In the colder areas with high rainfall of the south western most parts of the ecoregion a characteristic vegetation specially termed Magellanic moorland or Magellanic tundra extends through the Chilean archipielago to 48ºS.
Magellanic subpolar forests
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But perhaps more than ever there are many moorland paths overgrown with the heather.
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But campaign groups were angered because it would be built on greenbelt moorland.
The Sun
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Head eastwards across the grassy plateau to Ben Tirran, keeping an eye out for the birds that inhabit Scotland's high moorlands - curlew, ptarmigan, skylarks singing as they rise and, if you're lucky, the shy dotterel.
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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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His father had been an embittered hired hand to a poor tenant farmer in the forsaken moorlands of Jutland.
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The moorland nests of skylarks, curlews, lapwings and twite are being bulldozed to make way for concrete pits.
Times, Sunday Times
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The moorland is an important habitat for many rare bird species.
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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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Rare plant life which has perished includes cloudberry, a sub-arctic bramble, which thrives on moorland peat bogs.
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The hike takes in woodland and moorland and attempts to avoid anything difficult underfoot.
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The Abyssinian longclaw is considered near-endemic to this ecoregion, as are the moorland chat (Cercomela sordida), Abyssinian waxbill (Estrilda ochrogaster), moorland francolin (Francolinus psilolaemus), Rueppell's chat (Myrmecocichla melaena), ankober serin (Serinus ankoberensis), and spot-breasted lapwing (Vanellus melanocephalus).
Ethiopian montane moorlands
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Game birds, such as grouse or pheasants, are better suited to rough moorland.
Learn to Draw Countryside
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The whole ice-pack seemed one vast plain, like a bleak moorland in winter, only with little hillocks of ice here and there called hummocks, for the flat pieces of ice were all frozen hard together, and Ara wondered where "Greenland's icy mountains" had all got to.
Crusoes of the Frozen North
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It is a land of mountains, moorland and hill pasture, with steep river valleys and cliffs.
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Then a train north; then an antique motorbus upholstered with violet velvet; then a wet cabin cruiser forty miles up a black river into the silver moorlands of Lapland.
The Shell Collector : Stories
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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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It is a contrast to four years ago, when nearly 2,500 competitors were rescued from flooded moorland after atrocious wet weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stunning mountain vistas, shimmering lakes, and wild heather filled moorlands await you as we hike this beautiful country's premier long-distance footpath, the West Highland Way.
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Breeds on wetlands, moorland, water-side meadows, both coastal and inland.
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The moorland is an important habitat for many rare bird species.
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If the results are proved, it is hoped Government funding will be available to effectively control the growth and spread of bracken on open moorland and eradicate the virus through sheep vaccination and effective tick control.
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On northern mountains and moorland, bilberries are ripe and ready to eat.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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As one local farmer puts it: ‘Much of the land is moorland and poor quality, though there's some good bottomland usually along the streams and rivers.’
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And slowly lightened the clear eastern sky, and the crescent moon and stars disappeared one by one, and gradually the low pine-clad hills of Nova Scotia stood out in dark relief against the light, when, all of a sudden, “like a glory, the broad sun” rose behind the purple moorlands, and soon hill and town and lake-like bay were bathed in the cold glow of a winter sunrise.
The Englishwoman in America
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The road runs over a stretch of moorland and drops into a narrow valley.
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Game birds, such as grouse or pheasants, are better suited to rough moorland.
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