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Dartmoor is an upland area in Devon, southwestern England, much of which has been protected as Dartmoor National Park since 1951. Its landscape is characterized by exposed granite tors, open moorland, river valleys, peat bogs, and archaeological remains including stone rows, circles, and prehistoric...
The Flow Country is an extensive expanse of blanket bog and associated peatland habitats across Caithness and Sutherland in northern Scotland, covering roughly 4,000 square kilometres. Its waterlogged, nutrient-poor landscape contains deep peat accumulated over thousands of years and supports specia...
The North York Moors is an upland region in North Yorkshire, England, protected as a national park since 1952. Its landscape includes extensive heather moorland, wooded valleys, agricultural land, and a rugged North Sea coastline between places such as Staithes and Scarborough. Archaeological remain...
Exmoor is an upland region spanning western Somerset and northern Devon in southwest England, much of it protected as Exmoor National Park since 1954. Its landscape combines open heather moorland, wooded valleys, farmland, and a high coastal plateau overlooking the Bristol Channel. The area supports...
Rannoch Moor is a remote blanket bog in the Scottish Highlands covering around 50 square miles, designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest and one of the largest expanses of wild peatland in Britain.
Kinder Scout is a broad moorland plateau in Derbyshire and the highest point in England's Peak District, reaching 636 metres above sea level. Its landscape includes peat moor, steep escarpments, streams, and distinctive gritstone formations. Kinder Scout is also associated with the 1932 mass trespas...
The North Pennine Moors are an extensive upland landscape in northern England, characterized by heather moorland, peatlands, blanket bog, grassland, and deeply cut valleys. They form part of the wider North Pennines, an area recognized for its geology, wildlife, and cultural landscape. The moors sup...
The Hautes Fagnes, known in German as the Hohes Venn, are a high plateau and moorland region spanning eastern Belgium and neighboring Germany. The landscape is characterized by peat bogs, heath, forests, high rainfall, and a cooler climate than surrounding lowlands. It includes Signal de Botrange, B...
Store Mosse is a national park in Smaland, southern Sweden, centered on an extensive raised-bog landscape. Established in 1982, it protects peatlands, wet forests, lakes, and sandy areas that support specialized plants and a variety of birdlife. Boardwalks and marked trails allow visitors to cross o...
Cors Fochno is a raised peat bog near Borth in Ceredigion, Wales, within the Dyfi estuary landscape and the Dyfi UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. It forms part of the Dyfi National Nature Reserve and preserves an extensive dome of peat built from partially decomposed bog vegetation. Its waterlogged, nutrie...
Stordalen Mire is a subarctic peatland near Abisko in northern Sweden, located in a region of discontinuous permafrost. It is a long-term field site for research on how thawing frozen ground changes vegetation, hydrology, microbial activity, and the release or storage of carbon dioxide and methane....
The Cheviot Moors are an upland landscape spanning the border between Northumberland in England and the Scottish Borders. Much of the English side lies within Northumberland National Park and is centered on The Cheviot, an extinct volcanic massif whose summit reaches 815 meters. The area is characte...
Bodmin Moor is a granite upland in northeastern Cornwall, England, characterized by open heath, exposed tors, river valleys, and prehistoric remains. Its summit, Brown Willy, reaches 420 metres and is the highest point in Cornwall, while Rough Tor is another prominent landmark. The moor includes the...
The Wurzacher Ried is an extensive wetland and raised-bog complex near Bad Wurzach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It contains peatlands, fen, wet meadows, woodland, and areas altered by earlier peat extraction, alongside substantial near-natural habitat. Protected as a nature reserve and recognized...
The South Pennine Moors are an upland landscape of moorland, blanket bog, heath, and rough grassland spanning parts of northern England between major urban areas. Large portions are protected as a Special Protection Area and through constituent Sites of Special Scientific Interest because they suppo...
Flanders Moss is an extensive lowland raised bog in the Carse of Stirling in central Scotland. Formed through the long accumulation of peat, it preserves habitats dominated by bog mosses and supports specialized plants, insects, and birds adapted to wet, nutrient-poor conditions. Much of the survivi...
Clara Bog is a raised peat bog near Clara in County Offaly, Ireland, and is among the most extensively studied surviving examples of Ireland's midland raised bogs. Its peatland habitats support specialized plants, birds, and invertebrates adapted to acidic, waterlogged conditions. Parts of the bog a...
The Galloway Moors are areas of upland heath, blanket bog, and rough grassland in the Southern Uplands of southwest Scotland, particularly within Dumfries and Galloway. Their landscape includes broad plateaus, granite hills, peatlands, lochs, and sparsely settled valleys used for conservation, fores...
Ilkley Moor is an upland area above Ilkley in West Yorkshire, England, forming part of Rombalds Moor in the Pennines. Its landscape includes open heather moorland, gritstone outcrops, walking routes, and prehistoric carved rocks. The moor is closely associated with the Yorkshire folk song "On Ilkla...
Cors Caron is an extensive raised-bog complex and National Nature Reserve in the upper Teifi valley near Tregaron, Ceredigion, Wales. Also known as Tregaron Bog, it contains peatland, wet grassland, pools, riverside habitats, and surviving domes of raised mire formed through centuries of plant accum...
Mynydd Du, Welsh for "Black Mountain," is a moorland massif in Carmarthenshire and the westernmost major upland area of Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, formerly called Brecon Beacons National Park. Its highest summit is Fan Brycheiniog, at 802 metres, while Bannau Sir Gaer forms a prominent escarp...
Pendle Moor is an area of upland moorland around Pendle Hill in Lancashire, England. Its landscape includes open grassland, heather, farms, and settlements overlooking the surrounding valleys. The area is closely associated with the Pendle witch trials of 1612, in which residents from communities ne...
Muir of Dinnet is a National Nature Reserve in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, within the Cairngorms National Park. Its landscape includes Loch Kinord and Loch Davan, woodland, heath, bog, and other habitats shaped partly by glacial activity. The reserve is also known for the Burn O'Vat, a large pothole-li...
Haworth Moor is part of the Pennine uplands around Haworth in West Yorkshire, England, characterized by open heath, rough grassland, exposed ridges, and deeply cut valleys. The landscape is closely associated with Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, who lived at Haworth Parsonage and drew on the surr...
Bargerveen is a protected raised-bog landscape in the Dutch province of Drenthe, close to the border with Germany. It preserves part of the once extensive Bourtanger Moor, much of which was altered by peat extraction and drainage. Conservation work focuses on retaining water and restoring peat-formi...
Berriedale Moors is an upland area of peatland in Caithness in the far north of mainland Scotland. It lies within the wider Flow Country, a landscape of blanket bog, pools, wet heath, and moorland extending across Caithness and Sutherland. The area's peat-forming habitats support specialized plants...
Wildseemoor is a raised-bog landscape surrounding the Wildsee, a small lake in the northern Black Forest of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its waterlogged, nutrient-poor environment supports peat-forming vegetation and other species adapted to acidic mire conditions. The area is protected for its relat...
Migneint is an extensive upland area of blanket bog and moorland in north Wales, principally within Gwynedd. Its peatlands, pools, wet heath, and grassland form an important habitat for upland plants and birds, while also storing carbon and regulating water. Parts of the landscape fall within protec...
Fochteloërveen is a protected peatland on the border of the Dutch provinces of Friesland and Drenthe. It preserves and restores raised bog habitat, a once widespread but now uncommon landscape formed by peat accumulating under waterlogged, nutrient-poor conditions. Managed as a nature reserve, it su...
Mynydd Preseli, also called the Preseli Hills, is an upland area of moorland in Pembrokeshire, southwest Wales. Archaeological and geological research links outcrops in the Preseli region with several varieties of bluestone used at Stonehenge, although the precise prehistoric extraction and transpor...
