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Chat Moss - peat bog located in Salford, Greater Manchester; Cors Caron - peat bog near Tregaron, Ceredigion, Wales; Cors Fochno - peat bog near Borth, Ceredigion, Wales; Crymlyn Bog - a nature reserve near Swansea, Wales; Fenn's, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses - a national nature reserve which straddles the border between England and Wales
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After bog iron was made redundant by the increasing availability of iron ore, Allaire closed the Howell Works and eventually retired there with his family. The property remained in private hands until being bequeathed to the state in 1941. Today, the Howell Works is a registered historic site known as Allaire Village.
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Bog iron is a form of impure iron deposit that develops in bogs or swamps by the chemical or biochemical oxidation of iron carried in solution. In general, bog ores consist primarily of iron oxyhydroxides , commonly goethite (FeO(OH)).
While a cataract bog is host to plants typical of a bog, it is technically a fen, not a bog. Bogs get water from the atmosphere, while fens get their water from groundwater seepage. [11] Cataract bogs inhabit a narrow, linear zone next to the stream, and are partly shaded by trees and shrubs in the adjacent plant communities. [12]
Bog-wood may come from any tree species naturally growing near or in bogs, including oak (Quercus – "bog oak"), pine , yew , swamp cypress and kauri . Bog-wood is often removed from fields and placed in clearance cairns. It is a rare form of timber that is claimed to be "comparable to some of the world's most expensive tropical hardwoods".
A bog garden is a type of garden that employs permanently moist (but not waterlogged) soil to create a habitat for plants and creatures which thrive in such conditions. It may exploit existing poor drainage in the garden, or it may be artificially created using pond liners or other materials to trap water in the area.