These included the preservation of the countryside against urban intrusion, access to mountain and moorland, and the creation of national parks.
Until the middle of the nineteenth century this region had extensive areas of moorland and a very modest rural population.
They vary from heather moorland to agrostis pastures invaded by gorse and bracken.
Measurements and modelling of cloudwater deposition to moorland and forests.
For centuries, the area contained extensive stretches of common heath and moorland, whose reclamation and replacement by enclosed pastures proved a long and contested process.
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.
It is bordered mostly by coastline, hill ranges, and moorland, all of which form natural barriers that have contributed to its geographical isolation even to the present day.
Climbers can climb those crags even though perhaps no general right of access exists to the moorland massif of which they form a part.
