Marsden Moor

An historic landscape, visited by stone age hunters 9000 years ago, when the landscape was cold tundra. Over the centuries it became more temperate and forests developed. 5000 years ago climate change and deforestation caused the trees to disappear and today's peat bogs were formed.

More recently, it was a crime scene. On 9 September 1903, a local gamekeeper Willian Kenyon and his son Robert were pursuing a trespasser. They were found dead the next day. An Oldham man, Henry Buckley was charged with the murder but acquitted. The murders remain unsolved.