peat digging

Peat diggings can be found both in the centre and on the edges of the moor.

However, peat digging is likely to be discouraged, to protect the local landscape and ecology.

The mills were used to drain small plots of land but also found their use at peat digging sites as they could be easily moved.

The end of peat digging sees Thorne Moor returning to life.

The clay exposed by the peat digging was also excavated and used in the manufacture of bricks and pottery.

The Norfolk Broads resulted from ancient peat diggings.

The inhabitants were morose and suspicious, their occupations of charcoal burning and peat digging supplemented by anything that came their way.

It is a fairly new settlement as it started developing only in 1918 when a peat digging enterprise was established in the Ežerėlis Bog.

Clearly, they had originated as peat diggings, whose angular shape had been concealed by the overgrowth of vegetation once they had filled up with water.

The rural area is characterised by agriculture area (peat diggings) and some nature reserves in scrub and heathland or peat.

The area is an extremely rare survivor - most mosses in the UK have been drained for agriculture, forested or become commercial peat digging areas at some stage.

The Arembergergracht links the town with the Beulaker and Belter lakes and a multitude of smaller bodies of water just north, created by peat digging.

Open air museum Ellert en Brammert is a museum in Schoonoord expositing the way people lived in Drenthe at the time of the peat digging.

This new wetland habitat has been established from out peat diggings and now consists of areas of reedbed, wet scrub, open water and peripheral grassland and woodland.

Salhouse Broad is unusual in being the result of the flooding of tenth century sand and gravel diggings, not of peat diggings like most of the broads.

The area between London Drove and Dagg's Lane Drove was subsequently used for peat digging, and more recently has become the Westhay Moor National Nature Reserve.

Time to leave the village now; I drive over the hill into the next valley, past brown winter hills scarred with peat diggings and with the occasional relief of green patches of sphagnum moss.

With Enclosure, the grazing of commoners' stock and other ancient practices, such as peat digging, came to an end and the commons were divided up amongst the gentry to develop as they saw fit.

In the northwest, reclaimed boglands used for peat digging have resulted in low-lying areas vulnerable to flooding, pre-1932 (in that year, the Zuiderzee was closed off from the North Sea to become the IJsselmeer lake).

Along with Clara Bog, another raised bog in County Offaly, Raheenmore bog has been twinned with Bargerveen, a Dutch Ramsar Site which required restoration after peat digging was stopped in the 1990s.

GLASTONBURY is dominated by the dramatic and mysterious Glastonbury Tor, which towers above the flat landscape of the Somerset Levels, where peat digging and withy growing for basketmaking have been traditional occupations for generations.

The two scouts have now almost ridden to a point on the road abreast of the peat diggings, although the road is more than a kay south of the boggy depression, and little more than a thin lane winds over the rolling grasslands from the main road to the bog.

It was in the Yare valley and in particular on Surlingham Broad in the 1950s that Dr Joyce Lambert, helped by schoolboys from the City of Norwich School, began taking peat borings which led her to conclude that the Broads were the result of human activity, peat digging.