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Rotten Row is a broad track running 1,384 metres (4,541 ft) [1] along the south side of Hyde Park in London. It leads from Hyde Park Corner to Serpentine Road. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Rotten Row was a fashionable place for upper-class Londoners to be seen horse riding. [ 2 ]
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 ...
Horse remains dating from the Mesolithic period, or Middle Stone Age, early in the Holocene, have been found in Britain, though much of Mesolithic Britain now lies under the North Sea, the Irish Sea and the English Channel, and material which may include archaeological evidence for the presence of the horse in Britain continues to be washed ...
Entrance to the Royal Mews. The Royal Mews is a mews, or collection of equestrian stables, of the British royal family.In London these stables and stable-hands' quarters have occupied two main sites in turn, being located at first on the north side of Charing Cross, and then (since the 1820s) within the grounds of Buckingham Palace.
The stables remained in use into the 20th century, but by the 1940s were used for storing potatoes. In the 1960s, it was converted into a public gallery showcasing historic costumes. This closed in the 1990s, and the block now houses the estate's ticket office, cafe, and two shops. [2] The stables have been grade I listed since 1987. [3]
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The United Kingdom's coastline is more broken than coastlines of many other countries. It has a fractal or Hausdorff dimension or 'wiggliness' of 1.25, which is comparatively high; the Australian coastline for example has a fractal dimension of 1.13, and that of South Africa is 1.02.