Just wondering if anyone thought we should be looking into changing the name into something like Green hill
The regeneration they're doing up there seems to be proceeding wonderfully well, so that there's really no more - and I somewhat suspect less - bare peat up there now than on a normal pennine hill and a rather excellent variety of vegetation. (With the odd bit I'm not sure I've seen elsewhere on the Pennine tops.).
No chance of course and suppose it'll provide an interesting reminder of the industrial revolution. But it really is getting a bit unfair by now!
I'll have to go up to check this out, I have some rather grim memories of that place. Other well regenerated moorlands are those south of Chew Reservoir, very quiet there anyway so the project must not have suffered much footfall.
There's a picture of me drinking a beer at night on soldiers lump, I like the grim boggy stuff. I wonder if they are fencing it off to keep the sheep away?
No fences as best I could tell but then they're regenerating a pretty massive area. Don't really recall any wooly locusts either mind. Perhaps the (previous) sheer futility of having them there means there aren't really any on the hill?
If parts of it can avoid that and management for grouse shooting they could get quite interesting in a decade or two.
I went up Black Hill on a hot & hazy April day this year. Apart from a couple of patches near the summit, the footing was bone dry all the way up. And yes, it's mostly quite green.
