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THE Yorkshire moor is high, ill-drained, peaty, and over-grown with heather. Moors of this type abound in Scotland, and creep southward along the hills into Yorkshire and Derbyshire, breaking up into smaller patches as the elevation declines. In the south of England they become rarer, though famous examples occur in Dartmoor and Exmoor. In the north they may cover great stretches of country. It used to be said that a man might walk from Ilkley to Glasgow without ever leaving the heather. That was never quite true, but even to-day it is not far from the truth; a man might walk nearly all the way on unenclosed ground, mostly moorland.
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A Yorkshire Moor:1 I. Nature 58, 377–380 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058377a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/058377a0