The time," she added, "for expressing my final determination is not arrived, and I would fain have the freedom of wild heath and open air with the other commoners of nature, as long as I can be permitted to enjoy them.

They spent the Christmas and New Year period with one of the British regiments training on Dartmoor, a bleak expanse of wild and windswept heath, scrub, hills, and bogs on the Devon-Cornwall peninsula.

Still she delights to range among the hills, And fears descending from the wild, free heath, To tarry 'neath the lowly roofs of men, Where dwell the narrow cares of humble life.

The country they passed through was rather wild and desolate - heath and moorland with pools of water shining here and there.

And she took him to a wild heath, where the dead were lying as they fell, waiting for burial.

The only thing new about this ancient swathe of wild heath and woodland is its status of national park, finalised in 2005.

But when day came, with a sprinkle of rain, and he looked about him and saw on every side unknown woods, wild heaths, and blue mountains, he thought how large and strange the world was and felt frightened and small.

Neither he nor I nor Bardia," said I, "believes for one moment in your fancy that it is the god; no more than that this wild heath is a palace.

Less than 30 minutes from Southampton is an ancient swathe of wild heath and woodland grazed upon by wild ponies, donkeys and deer.

Barely a few dwarf plants could now be noticed, like those on the wild heaths of Scotland; then came the first tract of grayish sand and flint, with here and there a lentisk tree and brambles.