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If I had the choice I would group by valleys - or catchments - and subsume all of these under a Pennine vegetation type - the Couch Grass/Purple Moor Grass association that takes over when the heather's been burned out. I don't know how far it goes though.

The Smithills Country Park boundary is useful - though one of the rows is just outside it and into the golf course.

B.G.

“If I had the choice I would group by valleys - or catchments”

I agree, but without getting bogged down into flora I suggest we define the limit of Anglezarke as :-

West - Stronstrey Bank escarpment

East - A675 to the East ( as it runs along the “valley” bottom betweem Turton & Anglezarke Moors)

South - The road from Belmont to Rivington village (as it runs at the base of Rivington Moor escarpment)

North - Dean Black Brook. (Separating Anglezarke from Wheelton Moor)

This is a large area to survey comprehensively and as you know, features are “popping” out of the peat daily.