Wem Moss
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nature reserve, Site of Special Scientific Interest - SSSI (UK)
Wem Moss is an outstanding example of a lowland raised bog, a wildlife habitat that exists in Britain today in just tiny remnant fragments. Ninety-four per cent of its former range has been destroyed or degraded by drainage, intensive peat cutting, grazing, forestry and pollution, leaving just 503 hectares of unspoilt raised bog in England.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 52°54'13"N 2°47'2"W
- Cors Caron 105 km
- Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri (Snowdonia National Park) 109 km
- Wyre-Lune Sanctuary 121 km
- Rutland Water 142 km
- Thorne Waste / Crowle Waste Nature Reserve (Humberhead Peatlands) 149 km
- Yorkshire Dales National Park 186 km
- Exmoor National Park 204 km
- Dartmoor National Park 259 km
- Glenveagh National Park (Páirc Náisiúnta Ghleann Bheatha) 425 km
- Killarney National Park 474 km
- Fenn's, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses National Nature Reserve 2.9 km
- Sleap Airfield 7.9 km
- Preston Springs 10 km
- Hawkstone Park Victorian Follies 11 km
- Hawkstone Park Golf Club 11 km
- Weston Heath Coppice 11 km
- Old Coppice 12 km
- Sansaw 12 km
- Top Moss 12 km
- RAF Shawbury 14 km