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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 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...
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...
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...
Winter Hill is a 456-metre Lancashire moorland summit, distinguished by the television transmitting station operating there since 1956.
Blackstone Edge Moor is a South Pennines moorland on the Lancashire-West Yorkshire border, England, notable for a well-preserved section of Roman road, one of the clearest examples surviving in Britain.
Rombalds Moor is a moorland ridge between Wharfedale and Airedale in West Yorkshire, England, encompassing Ilkley Moor and containing a notable concentration of Bronze Age cup-and-ring rock art.
Great Whernside is a moorland fell in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, England, reaching 704 m and forming the watershed between Wharfedale and Nidderdale on the eastern fringe of the Yorkshire Dales.
Shap Fells are a broad moorland plateau in Cumbria, England, historically crossed by the main London–Scotland road (A6) and the West Coast Main Line railway.
Saddleworth Moor is an upland area straddling the Greater Manchester–West Yorkshire border, England, forming part of the Peak District and associated with the Pennine Way long-distance route.
Oxenhope Moor is an upland moorland in the South Pennines, West Yorkshire, England, rising above the village of Oxenhope near Haworth, the home of the Brontë family.
Bowes Moor is an elevated moorland in County Durham, England, traversed by the A66 trans-Pennine road near the village of Bowes, which contains the ruins of a twelfth-century Norman castle.
