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18.04.2021 - 11:13 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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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
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