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Definition of Sunk fence

Sunk fence
Sunk Sunk, imp. & p. p. of Sink. Sunk fence, a ditch with a retaining wall, used to divide lands without defacing a landscape; a ha-ha.

Meaning of Sunk fence from wikipedia

- ha-ha (French: hâ-hâ or saut de loup), also known as a sunk fence, blind fence, ditch and fence, deer wall, or foss, is a recessed landscape design element...
- Horace Walpole explained: "The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn...
- part of the cemetery and the Anglican section. This took the form of a "sunk fence" from the canal to the gate piers on the path. There were also decorative...
- 400. as. of park, 6 as. of kitchen garden. A large lawn, separated by a sunk fence from the garden, appears to be part of it. A straight broad gravel walk...
- separated by a dam-****-bridge, planting clumps of trees, installing sunk fences and the ha-ha. Burton Constable is one of Brown's best do****ented projects...
- Fence Colliery was a small colliery sunk at the lower end of the village of Fence, South Yorkshire, England alongside the main Sheffield to Worksop road...
- courtyards, surrounded by walls and has (hidden boundary lines behind 'sunk fences'). The complex was completed in 1885 for the government-run Callan Park...
- Lancelot Capability Brown. "The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the land within; and the garden in its turn...
- Kitchen George Hamilton Teed The ****ton Blake Library (2nd Series) 266 The Fence's Victim Donald Stuart The ****ton Blake Library (2nd Series) 267 The Night...
- other Poems 1835 A Place of Burial in the South of Scotland 1831 "Part fenced by man, part by a rugged steep" Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems 1835 On...