Talk:Thorne and Hatfield Moors

• Needs some details of size of workforce  Done
• A short paragraph of locomotive preservation  Done
• A little more info on the decline of peat extraction and creation of NNR  Done
• Lead needs expanding to summarise contents  Done

Bob1960evens (talk) 16:29, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

• Suitably referenced, with inline citations
• Reasonable coverage - no obvious omissions or inaccuracies
• Defined structure, with adequate lead
• Reasonably well written for grammer and flow
• Supporting materials - Infobox, map, images
• Appropriately understandable

Based on these criteria, I am rating it B. Bob1960evens (talk) 08:32, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Amazed, impressed and grateful that both "Creyke's Siding" and "Moorends Works" are mentioned in this article, wasn't expecting to find anything about them anywhere. This article truly deserves its "good" status.

Whilst on a roll if anyone has closing/track lifting dates for these two works - please leave a message on Hull and Doncaster Branch. Thanks.

Info added to Hull and Doncaster Branch article in 2016. Bob1960evens (talk) 16:07, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Hatfield Moors seems to be a subset of Thorne and Hatfield Moors. There seems no good reason for there to be two articles in this "one a superset of the other" relationship. I propose merging the former into the latter. (An alternative might be for this T&M Moors to become solely T.Moors.)

While we're here, we should also consider the relationship of Hatfield Chase to these articles, and possibly merge that.

If the decision is "don't merge", then at the very minimum the text of the articles should briefly explain how they relate to each other, possibly via hatnotes.

Feline Hymnic (talk) 22:32, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

@Bob1960evens: for comment from his expertise is geographical topics in this region. Feline Hymnic (talk) 22:35, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

As far as I can see, the Hatfield Moors article is about an SSSI. The Thorne and Hatfield Moors article is about the geography and industrial exploitation of the peat moors, while the Hatfield Chase article is about the land drainage of the area. While Thorne and Hatfield Moors mentions an SSSI, it is not the same one as mentioned in Hatfield Moors, since one was designated in 1981 and the other in 1954. Interestingly, List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in South Yorkshire indcludes Hatfield Moors SSSI, listed in 1954, and an SSSI called Thorne Crowle and Goole Moors which is a little smaller than the one mentioned in the Thorne and Hatfield Moors article, and was designated in 1970. I think this would need careful study to understand what is going on before any attempt is made to merge articles. I would not be in favour of merging Hatfield Chase with Thorne and Hatfield Moors, because I think the resulting article would be too unweildy, but a brief explanation of how the articles fit together would be helpfui. This could probably be done by adding some text to the See also sections. Bob1960evens (talk) 18:22, 1 March 2026 (UTC)