Lindow Moss

Lindow Moss, also known as Saltersley Common, is a raised mire peat bog on the edge of Wilmslow in Cheshire, England.

[1] The first written record of Lindow Moss was in 1421 when the lord of Mobberley and Wilmslow allowed people to dig peat from the mossland for use as fuel.

The bog can be a dangerous place; an 18th-century writer recorded people drowning there.

[3] For centuries, peat from the bog was used as fuel, though extraction has now ceased.

[6] In November 2011, they teamed up with a local amateur filmmaker to produce a short video detailing the history of the bog and some of the threats it faces.