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- Thorne_and_Hatfield_Moors abstract "Thorne and Hatfield Moors form the largest area of lowland raised peat bog in the United Kingdom. They are situated in South Yorkshire, to the north-east and east of Doncaster near the town of Thorne, and are part of Hatfield Chase. They had been used for small-scale extraction of peat for fuel from medieval times, and probably much earlier, but commercial extraction of the peat for animal bedding began in the 1880s. The peat was cut on the moors and, once it had dried, transported to several works on 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge tramways, always called trams locally. The wagons were pulled by horses to works at Creyke's Siding, Moorends, Medge Hall, Swinefleet and Hatfield. There was also a network of canals supplying the Moorends Works. The industry suffered a downturn between the two world wars, as working horses were replaced by lorries, but after the Second World War peat was used by the horticultural industry in increasing volumes, and output expanded again. From 1947, experiments were made with locomotives on the tramways, and they soon replaced horses. A total of 23 had worked on the system by the time it was closed down. The extraction process was mechanised in the 1960s, with the introduction of machines that could cut and stack the peat turves, and mechanical loading of the turves into the trains was introduced in 1981. Surface milling of the peat was introduced in 1985, which completely stripped the surface of large areas of the moors.The moors were thought by some environmental bodies to be worthless, but tireless campaigning by William Bunting after the Second World War, culminating in direct action by a group known as Bunting's Beavers in 1972, resulted in a change of policy, and a gradual recognition of the nature of the moors as an ecological resource. A small area of Crowle Moor was managed for conservation by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust from 1971, and the Nature Conservancy Council bought another small area in 1985. A major change occurred in 1994, when Fisons gave English Nature 2,340 acres (946 ha) of moorland, although they retained the right to continue extracting peat on some of it. By 2002, the cutting rights were owned by Scotts, and most cutting of peat effectively ended in 2001, since the government buy-out of the extraction rights from Scotts in 2002 occurred before the cutting season had begun. Removal of peat stockpiled on the moors continued unto 2006, and the moors are now managed as a National Nature Reserve by Natural England. Scotts still have a works at Hatfield, which processes imported peat.".
- Thorne_and_Hatfield_Moors country South_Yorkshire.
- Thorne_and_Hatfield_Moors country United_Kingdom.
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- Thorne_and_Hatfield_Moors country "England".
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- Thorne_and_Hatfield_Moors latitude "53.63".
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- Thorne_and_Hatfield_Moors region "Yorkshire and the Humber".
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- Thorne_and_Hatfield_Moors staticImageCaption "(Re-flooded peat workings on Thorne Moors form part of the Humberhead Levels National Nature Reserve)".
- Thorne_and_Hatfield_Moors subject Category:3_ft_gauge_railways_in_England.
- Thorne_and_Hatfield_Moors subject Category:Bogs_of_England.
- Thorne_and_Hatfield_Moors subject Category:Geography_of_South_Yorkshire.
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- Thorne_and_Hatfield_Moors point "53.63 -0.91".
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- Thorne_and_Hatfield_Moors type Settlement.
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- Thorne_and_Hatfield_Moors comment "Thorne and Hatfield Moors form the largest area of lowland raised peat bog in the United Kingdom. They are situated in South Yorkshire, to the north-east and east of Doncaster near the town of Thorne, and are part of Hatfield Chase. They had been used for small-scale extraction of peat for fuel from medieval times, and probably much earlier, but commercial extraction of the peat for animal bedding began in the 1880s.".
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- Thorne_and_Hatfield_Moors lat "53.63".
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- Thorne_and_Hatfield_Moors name "Thorne Moors".