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Tag: peat
Showing latest 50 of 120 images tagged with peat tag but excluding images with Pennine Way tag.
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Peat cutting
by Derek Mayes for square HY3705 Category: Peat cutting This is an historic peat-bed on Veness (Orkney)
Some peat has recently... (more)
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Peat banks
by Ian Paterson geograph for square SE7205 The peat bogs are formed into smaller bays by these banks which meander... (more)
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Peat Face
by Derek Mayes geograph for square HY3906 Category: Peat banks The Peat Extraction beds worked by the Highland Park Distillery... (more)
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Exposed Peat on Kinder Scout
by Mick Garratt geograph for square SK0789 This should act as a giant sponge of water but retreat of the heather has... (more)
Tags:
ErosionX
top:Lakes, Wetland, BogX
open accessX
open access landX
place:Peak DistrictX
Peak DistrictX
peat
peat bogsX
peat hagX
peat hagsX
peat moorX
season:summerX
top:UplandsX
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Peat stooks
by Derek Mayes geograph for square HY3705 Category: Peat stacks The more traditional way of finishing peats is to arrange them into small... (more)
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Drying Peat on Ve Ness
by Derek Mayes for square HY3705 Category: Peat stacks An unorthodox drying method. These slabs are cut with a spade and... (more)
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Peat workings
by Richard Dorrell geograph for square NG2346 Peat is still quite commonly used as fuel on Skye. Here, peat has been... (more)
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near:DunveganX
top:Energy infrastructureX
top:Heath, ScrubX
place:Isle of SkyeX
peat
peat cuttingX
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Peat Haggs, Kinder Scout
by Mick Garratt geograph for square SK0887 |
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Kinder Scout Trig. Point
by Mick Garratt geograph for square SK0789 Clearing showing the effect of peat erosion and shrinkage.
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Peat Hags on Crowden Head
by Mick Garratt geograph for square SK0988 Tags:
groughX
top:Heath, ScrubX
heather moorX
MoorX
open accessX
open access landX
place:Peak DistrictX
Peak DistrictX
peat
peat bogX
peat hagX
peat moorX
top:Rivers, Streams, DrainageX
season:summerX
top:UplandsX
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Plastic Sheet Piling on Edale Moor
by Mick Garratt geograph for square SK0987 An attempt to control the erosion and drying out of the peat moor which... (more)
Tags:
DamX
top:Heath, ScrubX
heather moorX
top:Lakes, Wetland, BogX
MoorX
open accessX
open access landX
Peak DistrictX
place:Peak DistrictX
peat
peat bogX
peat hagX
peat moorX
pilingX
sheet pilingX
season:summerX
top:UplandsX
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Neat Workspace
by Derek Mayes geograph for square HY3705 Category: Peat banks This shows a working peat bed after the annual cut. Slabs are drying in... (more)
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Tractor parked near peat cuttings
by Richard Law geograph for square NF7971 A crofter's tractor parked up near peat workings in the valley of... (more)
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Cutting peat on Veness
by Derek Mayes for square HY3705 Category: Peat cutting A dying art, though in these times of high fuel costs it may become... (more)
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Peat haggs
by Toby Speight geograph for square NG7547 Category: Peat haggs The flat top of this ridge is poorly drained, and thus ideal for the... (more)
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Black peat soil on Hod Fen
by Richard Humphrey geograph for square TL1890 A view from Hod Fen Drove south of Yaxley
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Rock Outcrops, Bleaklow Head
by Mick Garratt geograph for square SK0995 |
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Wain Stones, Bleaklow Head
by Mick Garratt geograph for square SK0995 |
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Drying peats, A' Mhoine
by Dorothy Carse geograph for square NC5463 Peat has been cut for fuel in this area for a long time, with many... (more)
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A pile of peat
by Richard Webb geograph for square N3972 A roadside peat heap, the peat has been extracted from a huge bog south of the R395.
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Guarding the peat stack
by John Allan geograph for square NF8970 With the ever rising cost of fuel these days, the value of peat is sky... (more)
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Recent peat cuttings
by Richard Law geograph for square NF7671 I noticed these while hunting for my mountain bike, which I'd... (more)
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Peat cuttings on the moor below Cleitreabhal a Deas
by Richard Law geograph for square NF7671 This particular one seems disused, but there were signs of more recent... (more)
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Peat stack at Shetland Crofthouse Museum
by Rob Farrow geograph for square HU3914 A stack of peat ready to be used in the authentic peat fire which used to... (more)
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Kinder Scout
by Stephen Burton geograph for square SK0889 Category: High moorland Kinder Scout is a high moor that suffers from extreme erosion. In some... (more)
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Rattlebrook peat works
by Graham Horn geograph for square SX5687 The forlorn remains of the former peat works, in the bleak landscape... (more)
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Rattlebrook Peat Railway
by Graham Horn geograph for square SX5587 This is the end of the line, or rather the start of the line. Hereabouts... (more)
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Looking across Letham Moss
by M J Richardson geograph for square NS8886 A huge raised bog, about 1.5 km diam., that has been flattened by peat extraction.
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Sandbeds Moss
by Mick Garratt geograph for square NY3622 A fenced off area of blanket peat bog.
In the distance is Great Mell Fell (NY3925).
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Rattlebrook Peat Railway past Great Nodden
by Graham Horn geograph for square SX5387 The modern path goes to the right. The old tramway is on an embankment... (more)
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Wiggly stream through the peat, Walsden Moor
by Humphrey Bolton geograph for square SD9421 This is the same stream as in SD9421 : The path to Warland Reservoir, about 10m downstream. The peat... (more)
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Channel above the Cowsic
by Derek Harper geograph for square SX5980 Erosion of the peat by a channel contributing to the Cowsic River.
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Peat workings
by Richard Webb geograph for square N3972 Huge Bord na Mona peat diggings.
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Peat workings
by Richard Webb geograph for square N3872 Industrial scale peat extraction.
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Drying Peats
by Liz Gray for square HU2578 Cut peats stacked & drying for winter use
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Peat diggings
by Richard Webb geograph for square NO2399 The line on the hillside is the site of peat extraction from the... (more)
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Bog and peat extraction
by Richard Webb geograph for square N4072 Peat is extracted from a huge area of bogland.
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Peat workings
by Richard Webb geograph for square N3872 Loading area for peat extracted from the huge bog here.
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Epworth from Hatfield Moors
by Ian Paterson geograph for square SE7104 The distinctive water tower and two windmills can be seen in the... (more)
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Cleaned out drain
by Jonathan Thacker geograph for square SE7202 This gives some indication of the thickness of the peat here. Only a... (more)
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Peat Fire, Bosta / Bostadh
by Colin Smith for square NB1340 Peat fire and "iron age pottery" in the gloom of the... (more)
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Peat Stack, Port Sgiogarstaigh
by Colin Smith geograph for square NB5461 Peats drying in the summer evening sunshine on the cliff top.
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Am Bail' Ard
by Colin Smith geograph for square NB5461 Peat farmer, with tractor and trailer, bringing peats off the unsurfaced... (more)
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Peat Stack, Eoropaidh
by Colin Smith geograph for square NB5165 Large stack of cut peats, standing about 5-6 feet high.
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Peat for the Fire, Eoropaidh
by Colin Smith for square NB5264 Two tractors, with trailers full of cut peats, heading for Eoropaidh.... (more)
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Peat bog, Maovally
by Richard Webb geograph for square NC3722 Drying peat on gentle slopes north of Maovally.
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Bog, Maovally
by Richard Webb geograph for square NC3621 Drying peat bogs on the peat covered ridge between Loch Shin and Glen Cassley.
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Abandoned works at Rattlebrook
by Graham Horn geograph for square SX5687 This area was once a hive of peat cutting activity. I believe these are... (more)
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Farming on Caldecote Fen
by Richard Humphrey geograph for square TL1989 North of Holme
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The edge of Letham Moss
by M J Richardson geograph for square NS8886 A huge raised bog, with birches around the edge, and drainage from its exploitation.
Tags:
place:AirthX
drainage ditchX
place:FalkirkX
top:IndustryX
top:Lakes, Wetland, BogX
top:LowlandsX
peat
peat extractionX
top:Rivers, Streams, DrainageX
top:Woodland, ForestX
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