The High fell includes peat moors and rocky areas which provide poor grazing at the top.

The area near where the streams meet was a peat moor, and parts of it were used for growing watercress.

The trees and plant life died away and the peat moors on the tops were created.

The peat moors gave way to heather and gorse.

Nearby was the Peat Moors Centre which closed down in the autumn of 2009.

The reserve consists of peat moors and springs, with gas-producing mofettes.

In the Middle Ages Kattenvenne was known for its peat moors.

As the name suggests, the channel is used to help drain the peat moors of King's Sedgemoor.

There are also a few peat moors, which are otherwise non-existent in Moravia.

Scotland is rich in wetlands - bogs, peat moors, rivers and lochs.

The meadow is a protected area with peat moor and several protected plants, including hellebore.

YouTube video - pictures and commentary on the Peat Moor visitors centre.

(Another natural source of fuel in the area was peat, the neighbouring peat moors having started forming around 10,000 years ago).

It is surrounded by many small towns; its environment consists of lowlands with forests and peat moors, and nearby lakes.

A reconstructed section was displayed at the Peat Moors Centre near Glastonbury.

A buzzard sailed over the high crags and bare peat moors of Craig y Gribin.

The drain was completed in 1856 by Makin Durham, but he failed to achieve much reclamation of the peat moors.

This was possible on this hillside, but is difficult to do on the peat moors where the underlying peat itself may ignite!

Ah, the Peat Moors Visitor Centre.

Much of Lewis is made up of a giant peat moor, beautiful in a windswept, desolate way that has been the inspiration for Gaelic poets.

In 1326 somebody set fire to the peat moor in the Brue valley, with the idea of burning Glastonbury Abbey.

Today only tiny pieces of this former peat moor remain, some reflooded as mini wetlands, scattered along the fault line that once brought about its very existence.

The Peat Moors Centre to the west of Glastonbury was dedicated to the archaeology, history and geology of the area.

On Hazely Peat Moor Bill waited for me, grinning as I slogged through the heather in the heat.

The archaeology, history and geology of the Somerset Levels was displayed at the Peat Moors Centre until its closure in 2009.