Moorland of the British Isles

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Moorland of the British Isles
Presented by Demina M.E.
Teacher of English

2.

Moorland
Moorland or moor is a
type of habitat found
in upland areas,
characterised by low
growing vegetation on
acidic soils. Moorland
nowadays generally
means uncultivated
hill land in high rainfall
zones. The old English
moor is closely related
to heath
Heather Moorland On The North Yorkshire Moors

3.

Natural vegetation of the British Moors
Calluna Vulgaris (Heather)
Cotton-grass
Bracken
Crowberry

4.

Dartmoor
• National Park founded in 1951.
• The largest area of granite in Britain – 625 square kilometers.
Most of it is under superficial peat deposits.
Dartmoor tors in snow
• Much more rainfalls on Dartmoor than
in the surrounding lowlands.
• Bogs form on the highest land where the
rainfall exceeds 2,000 mm a year.
• The most notable of the bogs is
Fox Tor Mires

5.

Dark Peak - moorland
Peak District - national park founded in 1951.
The Dark Peak is the high, wild northern part of the Peak District in England. The land is
uninhabited moorland plateaux where almost any depression is filled with sphagnum
bogs and black peat.

6.

North Yorkshire Moors
National Park,
founded in 1952.

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North Yorkshire Moor
The face stone,
Urra Moor
North Yorkshire Moor
Standing
stone
amongst
purple
heather in
Rosedale in
the North
York Moors.
Round hill, the summit of Urra Moor