The moorland is largely grass and bracken covered but there's gorse too which can be seen distantly, dark green. It appears that there's some clearance of gorse going on with the fire being of cut branches. Carrock Beck runs in the groove which is apparent at the left side of the image.
Uploaded to Geograph by Trevor Littlewood on 28 September 2011
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