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A mews is a row or courtyard of stables and carriage houses with living quarters above them, built behind large city houses before motor vehicles replaced horses in the early twentieth century. Mews are usually located in desirable residential areas, having been built to cater for the horses, coachmen and stable-servants of prosperous residents.
A four-ox-team plough, circa 1330. The ploughman is using a mouldboard plough to cut through the heavy soils. A team could plough about one acre (0.4 ha) per day. The typical planting scheme in a three-field system was that barley, oats, or legumes would be planted in one field in spring, wheat or rye in the second field in the fall and the third field would be left fallow.
There are many different types of stables in use today; the American-style stable called a barn, for instance, is a large barn with a door at each end and individual stalls inside or free-standing stables with top and bottom-opening doors. The term "stable" is additionally utilised to denote a business or a collection of animals under the care ...
[1] [2] England comprises most of the central and southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain , in addition to a number of small islands of which the largest is the Isle of Wight . England is bordered to the north by Scotland and to the west by Wales .
Historic districts in the United Kingdom (2 C, 4 P) Historic trails and roads in the United Kingdom (4 C, 9 P) Historical geography of the United Kingdom (6 C, 8 P)
The Cotswolds (/ ˈ k ɒ t s w oʊ l d z, ˈ k ɒ t s w əl d z / KOTS-wohldz, KOTS-wəldz) [1] is a region of central South West England, along a range of rolling hills that rise from the meadows of the upper River Thames to an escarpment above the Severn Valley and the Vale of Evesham.
The geological structure of Great Britain is complex, resulting as it does from a long and varied geological history spanning more than two billion years. This piece of the Earth's crust has experienced several episodes of mountain building or ' orogenies ', each of which has added further complexity to the picture.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – sovereign country in Europe, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK), or Britain. [1] [2] [3] Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, it includes the island of Great Britain—a term also applied loosely to refer to the whole country—the north-eastern part of the ...