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It is a partnership between the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership, Yorkshire Peat Partnership and the Moors for the Future Partnership. [4] The area covers five national parks — the Peak District, Yorkshire Dales, North York Moors, Lake District and Northumberland.
Thorne and Hatfield Moors Re-flooded peat workings on Thorne Moors form part of the Humberhead Peatlands National Nature Reserve The Moors within South Yorkshire Location North-east and east of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England OS grid SE723151 Coordinates 53°38′N 0°55′W / 53.63°N 0.91°W / 53.63; -0.91 Area 8,201 acres (33.19 km 2) Thorne and Hatfield Moors form the ...
The Poly-Peat site was now owned by North Lincolnshire Council, and became the base for the operation, while the Society was renamed Crowle Peatland Railway. They received funding of £10,000 from North Lincolnshire Council and the Isle of Axholme and Hatfield Chase Landscape Partnership to fund the restoration of the locomotives.
Fleet Moss is noted for its peat blanket bog, which has been dated to the Neolithic period. The area is ombrotrophic ; this means it needs rain, hail snow and fog for its nutrients. Fleet Moss is known as the most eroded blanket bog in all of Yorkshire ; because of its observable damage, it is known colloquially as The Somme , and as such, is ...
Hatfield Moors is the remaining part of a once more extensive raised bog in the Humberhead Levels, and is the second largest lowland raised peat bog in England.Much peat has been removed from the site over the years but peat-cutting has now stopped, and the bog is being allowed to regenerate.
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Map showing the boundary of the parish and historical features including the Axholme Joint Railway and Swinefleet Peat Works. Swinefleet is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south-east of the town of Goole on the A161 road from Goole to Crowle.
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