TodMordenMoor.org.uk
Title
Todmorden Moor Restoration Trust - home page
Description
We are a small group of local volunteers whose aim is to restore areas of the Common Land called Todmorden Moor that had been damaged due to past industrial activities and current illegal tipping. In partnership with local authority we have been involved in clean-up days, promotion of moorland and common land issues.
We started as Todmorden Moor Action Group in 1989. The original group opposed a proposal for resumption of opencast coal mining on Todmorden Moor by a company called Leigh Environmental. After successful campaigning against a number of open casting proposals, the Action Group reformed and was constituted as a registered charity in 1992 as Todmorden Moor Restoration Trust.
Todmorden Moor is on the Pennine watershed between Lancashire and West Yorkshire. It rises to over 440 metres and is typical high peat and grass moorland. It has suffered over two centuries from quarrying, mining and clay works and the scars of these industrial activities are still evident in the landscape and the loss of species diversity.
