moorland

From Middle English morelond, equivalent to moor +‎ land. Compare Old Norse mýrlendi (“moorland”).

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moorland (countable and uncountable, plural moorlands)

1. Open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken.
   • 1961 October, ""Voyageur"", “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:

     Troutbeck station, 10 miles from Keswick, in the heart of wild moorland, is the most isolated on the line.

• moor

• land

• Staffordshire Moorlands

• moorland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Romoland