Crime is placing one of Greater Manchester's natural wonders under threat
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukDon't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox It is a place where falcons soar.
Kestrel, merlin, and hobby ride the air, hang, glide, and swoop. Beneath them is what was once 6,800 acres of ancient peatland.
Split by the East Lancashire Road and the M62, it is now a patchwork of farms with only fragments of its origin soil left. But it remains a remote, wondrous haven of flat prime agricultural land, divided by drainage ditches instead of hedges.
Still bleak in parts despite centuries of reclamation it teems with wildlife. Roe deer, and brown hare, spring amongst cotton grasses and heather and plants like bog rosemary, lesser bladderwort, and sphagnum moss sprout.
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