Image: Holt Heath and Forest Dorset - geograph.org.uk - 1060816

Description: Holt Heath and Forest Dorset View across the north side of the heath from close to the road from Mannington to Holt. This is one of the largest tracts of heathland left in Dorset, now owned by the national Trust. Only 15 per cent of the original acreage of this rare habitat now remains in Dorset. It is also a Nature reserve. Originally the local commoners' practice of grazing stock and gathering firewood kept the heath in this condition. Nowadays this has to be done artificially to preserve the heath and it rare flora and fauna. Thomas Hardy made this kind of heathland famous in his books such as Return of the Native
Title: Holt Heath and Forest Dorset - geograph.org.uk - 1060816
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