Heath A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler a ...

or heathland is low-growing woody vegetation, mostly consisting of heathers and related species. Heath or heathland may also refer to:

Butterflies and moths

*the heaths, common name for the Palearctic species of the genus ''

Coenonympha ''Coenonympha'' is a butterfly genus belonging to the Coenonymphina, a subtribe of the browns ( Satyrinae). The latter are a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies (Nymphalidae). As a rule, Palearctic species are colloquially called heaths ...

'', brush-footed butterflies **''

Coenonympha pamphilus The small heath (''Coenonympha pamphilus'') is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae, classified within the subfamily Satyrinae (commonly known as "the browns"). It is the smallest butterfly in this subfamily. The small heath ...

'' (small heath), a butterfly native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa **''

Coenonympha tullia ''Coenonympha tullia'', the large heath or common ringlet, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It flies in a variety of grassy habitats, including roadsides, woodland edges and clearings, prairies, bogs, and arctic and alpine taiga and tun ...

'' (large heath), a butterfly native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America *''

Melitaea athalia The heath fritillary (''Melitaea athalia'') is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found throughout the Palaearctic from western Europe to Japan, in heathland, grassland, and in coppiced woodland. Its association with coppiced woodland ...

'' (heath fritillary), a butterfly found throughout the Palaearctic from western Europe to Japan *'' Semiothisa clathrata'' (latticed heath), a moth found from Europe, North Africa and Asia

Plants

*Heath family or heather family,

Ericaceae The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The family is large, with c.4250 known species spread across 124 genera, making it th ...

**Australian heath, any of the species in the genus ''

Epacris ''Epacris'' is a genus of about forty species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. It was formerly treated in a closely related but separate family Epacridaceae, but the various genera within Epacridaceae including ''Epacris'' have been ...

'' **Beard heath, any of the species in the genus '' Leucopogon'' **Heath, many of the species in the genus ''

Cassiope Cascade, Smallsat and Ionospheric Polar Explorer (CASSIOPE), is a Canadian Space Agency (CSA) multi-mission satellite operated by the University of Calgary. The mission development and operations from launch to February 2018 was funded through ...

'' **Heath, either of the two species in the genus ''

Daboecia ''Daboecia'' , or St. Dabeoc's heath, is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, containing two evergreen shrubs, closely related to the genus '' Erica''. They are native to cliffs and heathland in southern Atlantic Europe and ...

'' **Heath, many of the species in the genus ''

Erica Erica or ERICA may refer to: * Erica (given name) * ''Erica'' (plant), a flowering plant genus * Erica (chatbot), a service of Bank of America * ''Erica'' (video game), a 2019 FMV video game * ''Erica'' (spider), a jumping spider genus * E ...

'' **Mountain heath, any of the species in the genus '' Phyllodoce''

Places

Ireland

* Heathland, County Westmeath, a townland in the civil parish of Lackan, barony of Corkaree

United Kingdom

Heath, Cardiff Heath ( cy, Y Mynydd Bychan) is a district, community and coterminous electoral ward in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It is a predominantly affluent area with property prices being the third highest in the city. The area is known for ...

, Wales **

Heath (electoral ward) Heath ( Welsh: ''Y Mynydd Bychan'') is the name of an electoral ward in the north of the city of Cardiff, Wales, which covers its namesake community, Heath. The ward elects three county councillors to the County Council of the City and County of ...

, in Cardiff *

Heath, Derbyshire Heath is a village in the North East Derbyshire district of the English county of Derbyshire. The civil parish is called Heath and Holmewood. The population of this parish as taken at the 2011 Census was 2,953. Location Heath is immediately ad ...

, England *

Heath, Herefordshire Heath (or The Heath) is a dispersed hamlet in north Herefordshire, England. It lies in the civil parish of Leintwardine, on the other side of the River Clun northwest of that village. Two equidistant routes between Leintwardine and Heath are ...

* The Heath, Buxton with Lammas, a

location In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ...

in Norfolk * The Heath ( Hampstead Heath), a park in the City of London * The Heath, Hevingham, a

in Norfolk *

The Heath, North Norfolk ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

, a

in Fakenham, Norfolk *

Heath, Shropshire Heath is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Abdon and Heath, in the Clee Hills area of Shropshire, England. The settlement and wider rural area historically had a larger population than now, especially in medieval times. H ...

The Heath, Staffordshire The Heath is a village in the East Staffordshire borough of Staffordshire, England. It is close to the border with Derbyshire. The village adjoins the town of Uttoxeter and the villages of Bramshall and Spath. History The Uttoxeter Canal pr ...

The Heath, Suffolk ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

, a

near Tattingstone *

Ipswich Heaths Ipswich Heaths is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ipswich in Suffolk. The site consists of two separate areas in Martlesham Heath and Purdis Heath. They contain heather heath and acid grassland, with clumps of bracken and gor ...

, Suffolk * Heath, West Midlands *

Heath, West Yorkshire Warmfield cum Heath is a civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 844. increasing to 941 at the 2011 Census. Until 1974 it formed part of Wakefield Rural District and as of 2004, its under the ...

United States

Heath, Alabama Heath is a town in Covington County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 236. Geography Heath is located at (31.358154, -86.470193). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which , or 1 ...

Heath, Indiana Heath was a small town, now extinct, in Perry Township, Tippecanoe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Geography Heath is located at 40°27'41" North, 86°44'00" West (40.461389, -86.733333), on a bluff overlooking Wildcat Creek to the southea ...

* Heath, Kentucky *

Heath, Massachusetts Heath is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 723 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Heath was first settled in 1765 as a part of C ...

Heath Township, Michigan Heath Township is a civil township of Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 3,937. Communities Dunningville is a historic locale in the southern part of the township at . Andrew Whistl ...

* Heath, Montana *

Heath, Ohio Heath is a city in Licking County, Ohio, United States, and is located approximately 30 mi (48 km) east of Columbus. The population was 10,310 at the 2010 census. It is one of three cities in the county. History This area is known to ...

Heath Township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania Heath Township is a township in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 117 at the 2020 census, down from the figure of 124 tabulated in 2010. It was named for early Jefferson County settler Elijah Heath. Heath Township ...

Heath, Texas Heath is a city in Rockwall and Kaufman counties, Texas, United States. The population was 6,921 at the 2010 census, up from 4,149 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. History A proposition was placed on the Novem ...

People

* Heath (name), a list of people with the forename or surname *

Heath (musician) , known exclusively by his stage name Heath, is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as bass guitarist of the rock band X Japan. He joined the group in August 1992, replacing Taiji Sawada who left earlier in the year. Hea ...

(Hiroshi Morie, born 1968), Japanese musician *

Heath Brothers The Heath Brothers was an American jazz group, formed in 1975 in Philadelphia, by the brothers Jimmy Heath, Jimmy (tenor saxophone), Percy Heath, Percy (bass), and Tootie Heath, Albert "Tootie" Heath (drums); and pianist Stanley Cowell. Tony Purr ...

, an American jazz band

Art, entertainment, and media

HEATH A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler a ...

, an experimental literary text by Tan Lin *Heath, a fictional character in the American television series ''The Walking Dead'' *Heath Swanson, a fictional character in the Japanese manga series ''

California Story is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akimi Yoshida, serialized in '' Bessatsu Shōjo Comic'' from 1978 to 1981. Synopsis In 1975, wealthy delinquent Heath Swanson drops out of high school and runs away from his home in San ...

Companies

Allen & Heath Allen & Heath (also known as AH or A&H) is a company based in Penryn, Cornwall, England, specialising in the manufacture of audio mixing consoles. Allen & Heath also makes sound management systems for industrial installations and DJ mixers ...

, a manufacturer of audio mixing consoles, based in Penryn, Cornwall, UK * D. C. Heath and Company, a publishing company in Lexington, Massachusetts, US * Heath Ceramics, a manufacturer of ceramic tableware and tiles in Sausalito, California, US *

Heathkit Heathkit is the brand name of kits and other electronic products produced and marketed by the Heath Company. The products over the decades have included electronic test equipment, high fidelity home audio equipment, television receivers, amateu ...

, also known as Heath Company, a manufacturer of electronic kits and devices

Schools

* Heath Elementary School (disambiguation) *

Heath Grammar School The Crossley Heath School is an 11–18 mixed, grammar school and sixth form with academy status in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1985 following the amalgamation of Heath Grammar School and Crossley and Porter Schoo ...

, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England * Heath High School (Kentucky), US (closed in 2013) *

Heath High School (Ohio) Heath High School is a public high school in Heath, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Heath City Schools district that was founded in 1962. Athletics The Heath High School Bulldogs compete in the Ohio high school athletic conferences#Lickin ...

, US

Other uses

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Heath v. Alabama ''Heath v. Alabama'', 474 U.S. 82 (1985), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States, United States Supreme Court ruled that, because of the doctrine of "dual sovereignty" (the concept that the United States and each U.S. state, stat ...

'', 478 U.S. 82 (1985), interpreting the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States *

Heath bar The Heath bar is a candy bar made of toffee, almonds, and milk chocolate, first manufactured by the Heath Brothers Confectionery in 1928. Since its acquisition of the Leaf International North American confectionery operations late in 1996, the H ...

, a confection *

Heath Robinson (codebreaking machine) Heath Robinson was a machine used by British codebreakers at the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park during World War II in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. This achieved the decryption of messages in the German telep ...

, a codebreaking machine used by the British in the Second World War *

Heath Robinson William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist, illustrator and artist, best known for drawings of whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives. In the UK, the term "Heath Robinson cont ...

, used to describe an implausibly complex and impractical contraption, named after the cartoons of such machines by W Heath Robinson *

The Heath GAA The Heath GAA is a Gaelic football, ladies' Gaelic football and rounders club in County Laois, Ireland, located to the northeast of Portlaoise. History The club was founded in 1888. Originally the club was known as St. Patrick's. The club c ...

, a Gaelic football club in County Laois, Ireland