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Recent Examples of heathland
Designed by the renowned Tom Doak, the course draws inspiration from the classic heathland and links courses of London and the English coast, blending golden fescues, firm turf, and low-profile shaping to deliver golf that’s understated yet deeply compelling.
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Jeff Goudy,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
Near his home in Kent there were two prominent ridges, the North and South Downs; between them lay an expanse of woodlands and heathlands known as the Weald.
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Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
The design of the New Course was inspired by classical heathland style.
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Carrie Coolidge,
Forbes,
3 Dec. 2024
Stay at Sunriver Resort to gain access to the private heathland-style Crosswater (one of the Golf Digest honorees).
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Sunset Magazine,
29 Apr. 2022
Trails weave through woods and heathland, veering to the rocky shore where harlequin ducks bob about the breakers.
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Jeanine Barone,
BostonGlobe.com,
4 Mar. 2021
The island’s fabled heathland, site of all those chest-throbbing novels, faded and disappeared as woodland, no longer needed for fuel, was given over to agriculture.
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Roger Lowenstein,
WSJ,
7 Oct. 2020
In dunes, bogs, and heathlands, home to species adapted to a lack of nitrogen, plant diversity has decreased as nitrogen-loving grasses, shrubs, and trees move in.
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Erik Stokstad,
Science | AAAS,
4 Dec. 2019
Jeff Goudy,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
Near his home in Kent there were two prominent ridges, the North and South Downs; between them lay an expanse of woodlands and heathlands known as the Weald.
—
Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
The design of the New Course was inspired by classical heathland style.
—
Carrie Coolidge,
Forbes,
3 Dec. 2024
Stay at Sunriver Resort to gain access to the private heathland-style Crosswater (one of the Golf Digest honorees).
—
Sunset Magazine,
29 Apr. 2022
Trails weave through woods and heathland, veering to the rocky shore where harlequin ducks bob about the breakers.
—
Jeanine Barone,
BostonGlobe.com,
4 Mar. 2021
The island’s fabled heathland, site of all those chest-throbbing novels, faded and disappeared as woodland, no longer needed for fuel, was given over to agriculture.
—
Roger Lowenstein,
WSJ,
7 Oct. 2020
In dunes, bogs, and heathlands, home to species adapted to a lack of nitrogen, plant diversity has decreased as nitrogen-loving grasses, shrubs, and trees move in.
—
Erik Stokstad,
Science | AAAS,
4 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heathland
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The sun shined on the battlefield area, a wide-open grassland with few trees, mountains in the distance.
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The medium-sized bats primarily live in arid grasslands, desert scrublands, and dry tropical forests.
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The pavilions open onto the secluded edges of the meadow (with a wintertime option of rolling around in the snow to cool down).
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Video taken by passenger Brett Fillipi showed the single engine propeller plane bouncing to a stop in a mountain meadow with its nose slamming into the ground.
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That project covers 115,000 hectares of pastureland, focusing on improving soil health, biodiversity and carbon sequestration, while also improving supply resilience and providing fully traceable materials for Gucci’s collections.
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The sprawling coastal property encompasses roughly 3,700 acres of pastureland, woodlands, lochs, and more than three miles of dramatic shoreline.
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In the district, our reporting found, more than 9 out of 10 acres were pasture — grass for grazing or landscaping, or hay for livestock — considered beneficial under the law.
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Measuring 40 feet wide and 13 feet tall, the piece combines the rolling pastures of Cornersville with silhouettes of the Great Smoky Mountains.
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But then, yeah, there’s the tweed jacket, elbow patches, the cabin on the moors.
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Six audibly groans, like the cyhyraeth echoing on the moors.
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There was Asher Durand, master of the winsome glade; John Frederick Kensett, poet of still waters; and, above all, Thomas Cole, the philosopher-king of landscape, with whom an 18-year-old Church arranged to study privately.
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The attention to detail even extends to creating individual ambiences for each of the five steam and sauna rooms, including the forest clearing steam room, which feels like sitting in a fairytale glade.
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“Heathland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heathland. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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