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Open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken.
Examples of moorland in a Sentence
East of Konitz is an extensive moorland, 70 m.
Although there are long stretches of marshy moorland along the coast, the soil is on the whole productive.
The soil consists almost entirely of sand and gravel, and is covered with bleak moorland, patches of wood, and fen.
There is also Kersal Moor, 21 acres of Moorland, crossed by a Roman road, which has been noticed for the variety of its flora, and for the capture of the Oecophara Woodiella, of which there is no other recorded habitat.
The greatest extent of moorland is found in the westernmost parts of the plain, in Oldenburg and East Frisia.
Mountain areas of io,000 acres and upwards, largely covered with moorland, upon nearly imper meable rocks with few water-bearing fissures, yield in temperate climates, towards the end of the driest seasons, and therefore solely from underground, between a fifth and .a quarter of a cubic foot per second per 1000 acres.
Birkenhead Park was opened in 1847, Mersey Park in 1885; while a tract of moorland 6 m.
The dales are separated from each other by high uplands, which for the most part are heathery moorland or, at best, hill pastures.
The picturesque appearance of the village, with its quays and little harbour, and the grandeur of the cliffs and moorland scenery towards Land's End, make Newlyn an attractive spot.
The Exmoor is a horned breed of Devonshire moorland, one of the few remaining remnants of direct descent from the old forest breeds of England.
On the southern it mostly consists of lofty, bleak moorland, affording subsistence for sheep and cattle, and rugged glens and ravines, while on the northern there are many stretches of fertile soil, especially in the valleys and dales, and the landscape is often romantic and beautiful.
The best example of these folds is the axis of Leinster, its core being occupied by granite which is now exposed continuously for 70 m., forming a moorland from Dublin to New Ross.
The railway traverses this pleasant district of moorland and wood to Silkeborg, a modern town having one of the most attractive situations in the kingdom.
The Larne Coast is an undulating lowland to the east of the Larne Basalt Moorland.
The ruins of stone pele towers are found in the surrounding moorland.
The character of the landscape ranges from the wild moorland of the Cheshire borders or the grey rocks of the Peak, to the park lands and woods of the Chatsworth district.
On the west side these extend from Blacklow Hill to Axe Edge; on the east, from Derwent Edge to near Derby; outlying masses form the rough moorland on Kinder Scout and the picturesque tors near Stanton-by-Youlgreave.
In Great Britain in the breeding-season it seems to affect exclusively hilly and moorland districts from Herefordshire northward, in which it partly or wholly replaces the common linnet, but is very much more local in its distribution, and, except in the British Islands and some parts of Scandinavia, it only appears as an irregular visitant in winter.
About a mile east of the village is a small piece of moorland called the Bossenno, from the bocenieu or mounds with which it is covered; and here, in 1874, the explorations of James Miln, a Scottish antiquary, brought to light the remains of a Gallo-Roman town.
The high-lying moorland of the surrounding district is diversified by picturesque, dales; and Harrogate is not far from many towns and sites of great interest, such as Ripon, Knaresborough and Fountains Abbey.
It will find sustenance equally on the driest of soils as on the fattest pastures; upland and fen, arable and moorland, are alike to it, provided only the ground be open enough.
It lies at the southern point of the district called Pays de Waes, which in the early part of the 19th century was only sandy moorland, but is now the most highly cultivated and thickly populated tract in Belgium.
A narrow strip of level moorland, covered with furze and rich in deposits of peat, coal and amber, stretches inland, from the edge of the sheer cliffs which line the coast, to the foot of the mountains.
In the western and northern districts of Jutland this condition gives place to a wide expanse of moorland, covered with heather, and ending towards the sea in low whitish-grey cliffs.
This boulder sand forms almost everywhere the highest hills, and besides, in the central part of Jutland, a wide expanse of heath and moorland apparently level, but really sloping gently towards the west.
At a lower level there are wide tracts of moorland, covered in many cases with sweet-scented cistus and other wild flowers.
Its territories, far from the centres of European civilization and consisting largely of mountain, moorland and forest, were bounded on the north by the Minho, on the south by the Mondego.
They form an interesting and bleak moorland between Cookstown and Omagh, extending north-eastward into Slieve Gallion in county Londonderry, and consist fundamentally of mica-schist and gneiss, affected by earth-pressures, and invaded by granite near Lough Fee.
The trees along the moorland edges are trimmed to allow the black grouse better access to the cover of the forest.
The moorland is capped with hundreds of exposed granite hilltops (known as tors ), providing habitats for Dartmoor wildlife.
First there is the ' Flow Country ', an area of wild and almost impenetrable bogs and moorland.
Higher still lies the moorland zone, where a cover of giant heather is studded with otherworldly giant lobelias.
Mostly rugged moorland, it's a haven for walkers and those on the trail of ancient megaliths and Stone Circles.
The crags and moorland are suitable nesting and feeding areas for a variety of birds, including the peregrine, merlin and red grouse.
This charming Victorian house is surrounded by open moorland yet only a 5 minute walk to the village pub!
Over to the north the scene is one of desolation, a world empty of anything except undulating moorland.
These areas range from stark exposed moorland and edges to rolling meadows accompanied by peaceful dales.
The 110 mile route crosses the moorland then follows the coast up to Filey.
We'd made such good time we pressed on just to get to " the Lion " high up on the bleak moorland.
The terrain often features rugged, boggy moorland, or high mountains.
The natural pattern is for woodland on the lower slopes, leading to fields and unenclosed moorland on the summit.
This leads down to Cabin Flat, an extensive area of peaty moorland.
The water which comes off this peat moorland is often discolored.
Leskernick in Cornwall is typical granite moorland, much the same country as the Reverend Bray's, tho a little further southwest.
The flush habitats are generally situated within expanses of grass moorland.
All fencing should be adequate and safe, especially since moorland ponies are particularly nimble and are likely to be unsettled initially.
To the North, East and West lies the Dark Peak which has peat bogs, large expanses of moorland and gritstone outcrops.
These can be expected to have been mainly pastoral settlements exploiting what by now were impoverished moorland, much as today.
As you cross the peninsula, high open moorland and ancient woodland give way to coastal waterfalls tumbling from hanging valleys onto rocky shores.
High in the moorland to the right, saddle querns once used for grinding grain have been found recently.