Type of habitat found in upland areas with (sometimes marshy) poor acid soil and overgrown with low vegetation.
1 For several miles beyond Carr Bridge I passed over the wildest moorland .
2 No sign of its habitual rain and wind hung over the moorland .
3 On either side spread the sort of moorland of the wide pass-head.
4 As the darkness fell she crept across the moorland to Hart Hall.
5 Ahead on the horizon, the moorland was barren, virtually treeless, almost otherworldly.
6 We were following a track down a dip in an open moorland .
7 He, too, had seen the moorland and the men who had gone.
8 Across the moorland went a thing-halfwolf, half woman-themother of Grendel.
9 He felt scared, bruised, terrified, like one of these poor moorland hares.
10 And they're nice pictures, too, moorland landscapes and that sort of thing.
11 A large wildfire on Lancashire moorland may burn for another week, police fear.
12 The only school was nearly four miles off, up on the open moorland .
13 Prisoners are already used in large numbers in recovering moorland for agricultural purposes.
14 Out of the mists of the moorland the Evil Thing strode.
15 The farm-house stood a mile above the village, in a wild moorland country.
16 The wind howled fiercely over the moorland ; a close, thick, wetting rain descended.
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