South Pennine Moors

There are extensive areas of blanket bog, interspersed by species-rich flushes and mires.

The blanket bogs are dominated by cotton-grass and heather, with varying amounts of crowberry and bilberry.

Chickweed wintergreen and bog pondweed occur here, plants rare in the region.

[1] The South Pennine Moors also provides habitat for red grouse, curlew, skylark, meadow pipit, dunlin, golden plover, merlin and twite.

There are also lapwing, snipe and redshank, northern wheatear, whinchat, ring ouzel and in some years stonechat, as well as peregrine falcons and buzzards.