These included the preservation of the countryside against urban intrusion, access to mountain andmoorland, and the creation of national parks.
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Until the middle of the nineteenth century this region had extensive areas ofmoorlandand a very modest rural population.
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They vary from heathermoorlandto agrostis pastures invaded by gorse and bracken.
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Measurements and modelling of cloudwater deposition tomoorlandand forests.
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For centuries, the area contained extensive stretches of common heath andmoorland, whose reclamation and replacement by enclosed pastures proved a long and contested process.
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This is connected with the basic ordering of the pre-industrial landscape in relatively small cultivated zones around the villages and hamlets, and large zones of extensively used moorlands.
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It is bordered mostly by coastline, hill ranges, andmoorland, all of which form natural barriers that have contributed to its geographical isolation even to the present day.
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Climbers can climb those crags even though perhaps no general right of access exists to themoorlandmassif of which they form a part.
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It will be a useful addition to the armoury of those who are anxious to preserve the glorious beauty of our heath andmoorland.
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We have scenic beauty, open spaces,moorland, mountains, lakes and rivers, sandy beaches and rocky coves.
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The fringes ofmoorland, moreover, as has been pointed out, are often the most beautiful and most ecologically interesting parts of a moor.
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From those moorlands, it drains through the villages, overflowing the steams and flooding agricultural land and villages as well.
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As regards the responsibilities of the mapping agency, this is clearlymoorlandand heathland.
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That becomes such a great burden on themoorlandfarmer that some of them are giving up the keeping of sheep.
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It is increasingly the physical destruction of heaths, moorlands.
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