These are no ordinary moors; they are lush and more luxuriant than the moors of the west; the heather is more abundant and richer than ordinary heather, while the bracken has an almost tropical splendour. Adders lurk in it, and all kinds of wild life. Incidentally, the largest stoat in the British museum collection was shot at Goathland in 1936; its overall length being just short of nineteen inches.
Brown/Acres, 1948
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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