MOORLAND


Meaning of MOORLAND in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

high

Tundra and high northern moorland , feeding mainly on lemmings and birds the size of Ptarmigan and Oystercatcher.

These high moorland stone-walled fields near Malham, West Yorkshire, were laid out in the eighteenth century.

open

As well as sections through open moorland a lovely stretch of the walk follows the River Barle through rich woodland to Tarr Steps.

Then it continues across open and barren moorland to Fearnbeg, where it formerly ended.

The farmers have decided to leave much of the uplands as wildscape of open moorland .

The granite tors of the Mountains of Mourne and the open moorland wildscape of the Sperrin Mountains also attract tourists.

Eventually the track emerges from the woodland on to open moorland , and climbs up the hillside.

On the open moorland you might see meadow pipits and wheatears.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Door theft: Thieves have stolen the carved doors off a remote moorland chapel.

In the marginal fringe, where farmland meets wild moorland , woodland or marshland, there are several changes.

It became a rough bridleway, leading through a series of gates on to the lower reaches of moorland .

Not all of the losses of moorland and rough grassland to agricultural development are the result of surface cultivation and grass seeding.

Recently some areas which used to be moorland have been enclosed and ploughed, mainly on Exmoor.

Ruth went out of the house and ran down the steep moorland path all the way to Ilkley.

Some routes were planned, climbing from valleys to moorland pastures and shielings for summer grazing.

We flew down the moorland road like a bird, disturbing the sleeping ducks at the tarn.

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