
Reserve Focus - Thorne Moors National Nature Reserve
Thorne Moors National Nature Reserve is an area of almost 73ha (180 acres) owned and managed by the Nature Conservancy Council. It contains the best surviving example of a cut-over raised mire within the Thorne, Goole and Crowle Moors, which were once part of a huge wetland site of bog, fen and marsh known as the Humberhead Levels, situated around the head of the Humber.