noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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high
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Tundra and high northern moorland , feeding mainly on lemmings and birds the size of Ptarmigan and Oystercatcher.
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These high moorland stone-walled fields near Malham, West Yorkshire, were laid out in the eighteenth century.
open
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As well as sections through open moorland a lovely stretch of the walk follows the River Barle through rich woodland to Tarr Steps.
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Then it continues across open and barren moorland to Fearnbeg, where it formerly ended.
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The farmers have decided to leave much of the uplands as wildscape of open moorland .
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The granite tors of the Mountains of Mourne and the open moorland wildscape of the Sperrin Mountains also attract tourists.
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Eventually the track emerges from the woodland on to open moorland , and climbs up the hillside.
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On the open moorland you might see meadow pipits and wheatears.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Door theft: Thieves have stolen the carved doors off a remote moorland chapel.
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In the marginal fringe, where farmland meets wild moorland , woodland or marshland, there are several changes.
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It became a rough bridleway, leading through a series of gates on to the lower reaches of moorland .
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Not all of the losses of moorland and rough grassland to agricultural development are the result of surface cultivation and grass seeding.
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Recently some areas which used to be moorland have been enclosed and ploughed, mainly on Exmoor.
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Ruth went out of the house and ran down the steep moorland path all the way to Ilkley.
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Some routes were planned, climbing from valleys to moorland pastures and shielings for summer grazing.
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We flew down the moorland road like a bird, disturbing the sleeping ducks at the tarn.