The Moors is an ongoing project documenting the Town Moor, a vast area of common land north of Newcastle upon Tyne's city centre. Spanning over 1000 acres and spread across several sections, it is one of the largest urban open spaces in the UK. The moors have been common pasture land for over 800 years, with documented grazing rights going back to the 12th century. These rights are held by the Freemen of Newcastle, who still graze the cattle on the moor today. Their role in managing the land is one of the oldest continuous civic traditions in Britain.​

 

Today the Moor holds this tradition alongside newer and sometimes competing claims on the same land - The Hoppings, Europe's largest travelling fair, park runners, allotment societies and concert promoters, as well as efforts at habitat restoration, including a sapling from the felled Sycamore Gap tree. The project explores what common land means when so many different voices lay claim to it. ​