Are there any unique landscapes in Great Britain?
Most of the British hills were covered with pine forests until iron age people cut the trees for smelting iron ore and building houses,so the grassy and heather-covered hills of Dartmoor,Exmoor,the Cotswolds,Pennines and Grampions are artificial landscapes in a sense. Very large areas of the Scottish Highlands have been managed moorlands for grouse and deer hunting, and the vegetation is artificially encouraged and has been for hundreds of years. It is nowhere near as natural as it seems. The Hartz mountains in the north of Germany and the Black Forest in Bavaria are mostly still forested and are similar to what the lake district and Pennines and Dartmoor would be like without the iron age destruction of trees. . Many other countries have the same early history however so denuded hills are not unique to Britain. Mecklenburg in Germany is in the ‘land of a thousand lakes’, the German lake district. At Studland Bay in Dorset ,heather grows on the sand dunes right down to the beach,which
