Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post ... As the Friends of Ilkley Moor website explains, the moor’s heather is not only striking but of national importance.

These expansive Yorkshire moors--open, rolling uplands covered with heather--were made famous by the Bronte sisters in their popular novels. Between the lonely, forbidding and wind-swept moors lay ...

Tom Chadwick, chairman of the North Yorkshire Moors Association ... been a rise in complaints due to "very intensive periods of heather burning with a pall of smoke stretching for many miles".

The heather beetle has been blamed for moorland ... of plant life and kills large numbers of animals. The North Yorkshire Moors Moorland Organisation, created by a group of gamekeepers to promote ...

The League Against Cruel Sports and Ban Bloodsports on Yorkshire’s Moors say heather on Keighley Moor, Stanbury Moor and Haworth Moor is being set on fire to control the habitat and increase ...

the moor stretches out, revealing a wilder, more ancient history. Read Next: I went in search of Britain’s best pint – I was surprised where I found it Among the heather, bracken, bogs and ...

THE Yorkshire moor is high, ill-drained, peaty, and over-grown with heather. Moors of this type abound in Scotland, and creep southward along the hills into Yorkshire and Derbyshire, breaking up ...

With its abundance of heather and red grouse, Yorkshire’s undulating moors echo with gunfire each August as artfully engraved shotguns costing as much as a starter home intercept grouse as they ...

Sheep are a familiar sight on the North York Moors, but do you realise how they ... in the 19th century changed all that. Grouse like heather and the moorland was managed for the game birds.

The Yorkshire moors, home to one of the largest expanses of heather moorland in the UK, are known for their harsh terrain, bad weather, and stark, dramatic beauty. They clearly inspired Brontë to ...

I lie in an empty Victorian bathtub on heather moorland in the Yorkshire Moors in England's north. Above me, more and more stars appear as the sky slowly darkens from blue to violet to navy.

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway will be celebrating the 50th ... but the railway will be taking inspiration from the heather moorland its railway lines pass through and painting its locomotives ...