Moors Valley
The community centre of your wildest dreams. Moors Valley Country Park is one of the most popular parks in the UK, attracting over a million visitors per year. This amazing park is free for visitors on foot or bike and 20 pence per day (really!) for a car – with an all-hours annual season ticket! It offers so much to so many. It's the place where you can enjoy a peaceful walk, exercise yourself, your dog (or horse), cycle on the Through the Forest track, experience a ride on an authentic narrow-gauge steam train or even Go Ape on a high wire forest adventure swinging through the treetops . . . and way more. There is something for everyone at Moors Valley as you'll see from the pictures below!
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Moors Valley visitors would be seriously impacted by the proposed Purple Haze quarry. Those impacts would include: footpath and cycle track closures and extensive felling of trees. Noise will be a big issue too: the sound of chainsaws, excavators, processing plant, heavy trucks carrying felled timber and tonnes of sand. There will be the diesel fumes of working machinery. Forestry plant would be churning up the Wide Ride and trucks would be crossing it every few minutes. All this adds up to fearful impacts on beautiful and normally tranquil forest and heathland habitats. All this mayem will be impssible to ignore. The park is a creative blend of experiencing nature with loads of fun things to do, play, learn. There are 1,000 acres of forest with its miles of way-marked trails. There are two huge lakes to explore and watch waterfowl. All this is a fantastic backdrop for exercising and sporting activities. Moors Valley is the place to meet, socialise, make new friends, dine in the restaurant or grab a snack at the many kiosks around the place. You can enjoy art, cultural events – even watching (or competing in) husky racing. The list is endless as you'll see from the pictures here.
Photography by David White
