The word 'moor' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a large open area of uncultivated land, especially with high regular rainfall, marshland, and/or heathland, as in the sentence: "There are some beautiful moors located in Northern England."
Avery had visited a grouse moor earlier in the year.
According to the Moorland Association, just 10% of moor owners' £52.5m annual spend on land management comes from government subsidies – the rest is private money, brought in by grouse.
"In the second attempt, an immature female, which nested 5 metres [16ft] from the boundary of the moor, laid two eggs in Northumberland but the eggs were not viable despite the female incubating for the full term and the male provisioning her well.
If you want to shoot, you want to shoot on a grouse moor".
Mawle offered to show me his grouse moor, and so we clambered into a noisy Kawasaki all-terrain vehicle driven by Neil Taylor, Mawle's Scottish gamekeeper.
It was another brilliant day in Yorkshire for the Tour, with constant thrills and spills - particularly over the punishing final 100km - and bumper crowds lining every hill, moor and dale.
We parked and walked over the moor close to where Sky and Hope vanished.
Reading the glossary, I was amazed by the compressive elegance of its lexis, and its capacity for fine discrimination: a caochan, for instance, is "a slender moor-stream obscured by vegetation such that it is virtually hidden from sight", while a feadan is "a small stream running from a moorland loch", and a fèith is "a fine vein-like watercourse running through peat, often dry in the summer".
Faisal Khan (Bradford Moor), Alyas Karmani (Little Horton), Ishtiaq Ahmed (Manningham) and Ruqayyah Collector (City), all well-known local campaigners, were originally elected in May 2012 in the aftermath of what Galloway called the "Bradford spring", in which he won a byelection in Bradford West in spectacular fashion.
The work's first screening took place earlier this year in an isolated bothy over 2000' feet above sea-level in the Moor House National Nature Reserve, close to Auden's "great good place", - To where those peat-stained deserted burns, That feed the Wear and Tyne and Tees, And, turning states to strata sees, How basalt long oppressed burst out, In wild revolt at Cauldron Snout.
Gerald Moor, of Inkerman, a British firm that supplies such services, says they are now also being sought by anxious parents, whose children are embarking on pre-university adventures.
