moorland
moor land
- n open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
- From the window of the moorland house a face watches them menacingly.
- In the moorland town of Macclesfield, Housewife Hannah Wright was out of control.
- And beyond the intimate, granite-clad harbors with their pubs, tea gardens and lighthouses, Neolithic settlements are scattered along the luscious Gulf Stream-fed moorland, ripe .