It is part of Humberhead Peatlands National Nature Reserve
Find out more at the Thorne and Hatfield Moors Conservation Forum - www.thmcf.org
Thorne
Moors is the largest Lowland Raised Mire in England, Hatfield Moors it's
neighbour the second largest. Thorne is also known for Large Heath Butterfly,
Bembidion humerale and Curimopsis nigrita, two beetles found only on the
Humberhead Peatlands (a modern generic term for Thorne, Hatfield and the smaller
local Turbaries in the Isle of Axholme), nowhere else in the UK.
Thorne
Moors is mainly in South Yorkshire with north of Blackwater Dyke in East Riding
Yorkshire and east of Swinefleet Warping Drain is in North Lincolnshire.
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