heathland
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A heathland course unlike the links which dominate the home of golf, the Duke's was opened by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in 1995.
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025
The species depends on just one plant, Devil's-bit Scabious, which grows across a range of grassland and heathland sites, most often grazed by cattle.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2025
Upland heathland is characterised by the presence of low-growing shrubs, such as heather.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2025
The species survival fund will also support a partnership of schools, farmers, and landowners across the mid-Cornwall moors area to restore woodland and heathland, as well as species-rich acidic grasslands.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2024
Beyond it were slopes covered with sombre trees like dark clouds, but all about them lay a tumbled heathland, grown with ling and broom and cornel, and other shrubs that they did not know.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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