Moorland

There is more moorland in Northern Germany than in Southern Germany.

I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend.

Now and then we passed a moorland cottage, walled and roofed with stone.

With her perfect figure and elegant dress she was, indeed, a strange apparition upon a lonely moorland path.

In Devon we have wonderful moorland walking.

The morning, which had arisen calm and bright, gave a pleasant effect even to the waste moorland view which was seen from the castle on looking to the landward.

The moorland itself is a mass of granite upheaved in pre-glacial days, weathered by countless centuries into undulating surfaces, pierced by jagged tors, and interspersed with large patches of bog and peat-mire.

Heather is a dominant plant in most moorland in Europe.

The completely-industrialised outskirts of Newcastle gradually give place to rural surroundings, and the Tyne becomes a moorland river with a boulder-strewn bed.

Troutbeck station, 10 miles from Keswick, in the heart of wild moorland, is the most isolated on the line.