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PostSubject: Lindow Moss   Lindow Moss EmptySat Dec 25, 2010 8:21 pm

Lindow Moss, also known as Saltersley Common, is a raised mire peat bog on the edge of Wilmslow in Cheshire, England. It has been used as common land since the medieval period.

The peat bog was form in a collection of hollows left by melting ice at the end of the last ice age. The first written record of Lindow Moss was in 1421 when the lord of Mobberley and Wilmslow allowed people to dig peat from the mossland to be used as fuel.[1] It originally covered over 600 hectares (1,500 acres), but has since shrunk to a tenth of its original size. The bog can be a dangerous place; an 18th-century writer recorded people drowning there.[2]

For centuries the peat from the bog was used as fuel, and it continues to be extracted - but now the process has been mechanised.

The site is known for its flora and fauna such as Tail Cotton Grass, Common Cotton grass and Green Hairstreak Butterfly. It also has been a habitat for Water Voles although their continued existence is threatened by sinking water levels.

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