Saddleworth Moor
About Saddleworth Moor
Saddleworth Moor is a moorland in North West England. Reaching more than 1,312 feet (400 m) above sea level, it is in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park. It is crossed by the A635 road and the Pennine Way passes to its eastern side.
On the show
Because it's James Bond, he's British. True, yeah. I really like this fact, OK, because it's sort of a historical thing being revealed by science and it's kind of an exciting crossing of those two academic worlds and something quite similar to that was, you know, the Saddleworth Moor fires this year. So that was in the Manchester area, obviously. One side effect of those fires is that it's going to release all of this long-lost pollutant from the Industrial Revolution because it's, I know it's exciting, we're all going to die in some way.
from 233: No Such Thing As A Sexy Question Mark, 2018-09-07 at 00:26:00 · read transcript
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Coordinates: 53.5330, -1.9670