Don't be out on the moors tonight.

It's bound to take your life.There's a bad moon on the rise.

What are moors?

Currently I'm reading a book which takes place in Yorkshire. The characters are all walking along the moors. Or driving across the moors to other villages. In "American Werewolf in London" a wolf man prowls the moors.

I've read about moors all my life but I don't know what kind of landscape it actually is.

I always thought they were like swamps or something. Are there swamps in England?

Wikipedia says:

Moorland or moor is a type of habitat found in upland areas, characterised by low growing vegetation on acidic soils. Moorland nowadays generally means uncultivated hill land (such as Dartmoor in South West England), but the Old English mōr also refers to low-lying wetlands (such as Sedgemoor, also SW England). It is closely related to heath although experts disagree on precisely what distinguishes the types of vegetation. Oliver Rackham points out that long-term general usage has been that moors are used to describe highland (and therefore high-rainfall zones), whereas heath refers to lowland zones which are more likely to be the result of human activity.

http://odysseyomnimedia.com/images/4...ional_Park.jpg

Yorkshire moors. Favored habitat of melodramatic Brontëan characters.

http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/gallery_im..._hills_mid.jpg
http://www.knowledge.me.uk/photos/da...foxup_moor.jpg
http://www.bugbog.com/images/galleri...gland-moor.jpg

Not some place I would want to be walking alone at night even in the best of times.

Thanks y'all.

HEATHCLIFF!!
http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/gallery_im..._hills_mid.jpg
CATHERINE!!!!
http://www.knowledge.me.uk/photos/da...foxup_moor.jpg
HEATHCLIFF!!

http://www.bugbog.com/images/galleri...gland-moor.jpg

CATHERINE!!!!!!!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...aid_Moulin.jpg

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions..._436_maure.jpg

The English have been afraid of getting on Moors since the time of Shakespeare.

I can honestly say I have never been on a Moor.

We don't call them moors here, but i can't think what we call them, but I've been on Irish "moors" and I've met Irish moors too.

Moor and moor I hate werewolf movies.

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Bobby Moore - probably of no help to your query, but he means a lot to us English --- not so much the rest of the disUnited Kingdom, I'll admit.