ABSTRACT
The British uplands, which cover almost a third of Britain’s land surface, encompass a wide range of habitats ranging from places such as the granite tors of North Hessary on Dartmoor, through the eroded peat plateau of Kinder Scout in Derbyshire to the arctic-like plateau of Ben MacDui in Scotland. Despite the obvious differences between these places each is instantly recognisable as an upland environment, so what do they share in common? One important shared characteristic is the absence, or at least paucity, of human signs such as roads, buildings and boundaries. They are the closest that we can get to wilderness in Britain.
