WestMoors is a village in East Dorset, England, on the northern fringe of the Poole-Bournemouth conurbation, just outside the larger settlement of Ferndown.
WestMoors grew up round the junction of the Southampton-Dorchester and Salisbury-Wimborne railway lines in the late 1800s, and although main line services were later diverted via Bournemouth, WestMoors was served by a branch line railway till the mid 1960s.
WestMoors has a mixed population, comprising military families (mainly living on their own housing estates), a relatively high proportion of elderly people, and significant number of young families.
The West Pennine Moors is an area of approximately 90 square miles of moorland and reservoir scenery, located in Lancashire, between the towns of Chorley, Bolton, Horwich, Ramsbottom, Haslingden, Oswaldtwistle and Darwen.
The West Pennine Moors are bisected by a number of wooded valleys and cloughs, the largest such area being in the Roddlesworth valley near Tockholes.
A further site, 1km west of the summit, known as Noon Hill Saucer Tumulus, is also a burial site consisting of two concentric stonewalls with two sets of burnt human bones in the centre and broken urn containing more bones, along with two flint arrow heads and flint sacrificial knife.
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