Offices that had been rabbit warrens have had walls removed, clearing views straight through the site.
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Offices that had been rabbit warrens have had walls removed, clearing views straight through the site, between north and south.
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Microsoft's older buildings are known for private offices with closing doors, many of them with the feel of rabbit warrens, with narrow corridors.
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Along the way, they encounter numerous other rabbit warrens, which may or may not represent various responses to fascism during World War II. (I come down on the side of "may not," but hey, symbolism is fun.) The rabbits, led by ordinary bun Hazel and his psychic brother Fiver, build a new society atop Watership Down, then raid an ultra-fascistic warren led by General Woundwort in order to help some of the female rabbits who live there escape and join them for breeding purposes.
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The site has suffered from some agricultural damage in the 1980s and also some damage from sheep and rabbit warrens.
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Being equally short, these too became popular for rabbits. A number of rabbit warrens continued through the 1970s. The Far Tottering and Oysterperch, modelled on Rowland Emett's Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway featured in Railway Modeller, as did a number of Santa-themed Christmas layouts. By the 1980s rabbit warrens had lost their popularity.
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Sharpenhoe Clappers is an Iron Age hill fort, together with medieval rabbit warrens and associated agricultural earthworks. There is access to the National Trust property from Sharpenhoe Road.
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Males and females build large nests together in trees or on ledges; jackdaws are known to breed in buildings and in rabbit warrens. The male will also feed the female during incubation.Encyclopædia Britannica Online: Corvidae. Free subscription required.
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The coaching stock though had a 'miniature railway', rather than narrow-gauge, look to them, accentuated by the toast- rack designs of some open stock. Rabbit warrens were almost entirely H0e or 00-9. Their small dimensions and tight curves required a narrow gauge.
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There is evidence of rabbit warrens in the park. Whether the warrens were free or domestic is unknown. The park's boundary was originally marked by a wooden fence, or pale, on the top of an earth bank inside a ditch. Some parts of the pale survive.
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Orchids include Herminium monorchis and Aceras anthropophorum. An uncommon rose, Rosa stylosa, is found in scrub areas. There is also beech forest with a ground layer including primroses. Clappers are rabbit warrens (from the French "clapier"), and meat, fur and leather from rabbits used to be an important part of the local economy.
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The stamens unite in a short column. The fruit is a ribbed capsule, which breaks up into 8 to 10 segments. The plant blooms throughout the year. This species is usually confined to waste ground, such as roadsides and rocky areas, stock camps or rabbit warrens, but can be competitive in pasture, because of its unpalatability to livestock.
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Next, two rows of trees were removed to create a rack some 10 feet wide. The thinnings were graded and the straighter poles used as pit props in the coal industry. Other thinnings had a wide range of uses including fencing posts, pea poles in gardens and into netting stakes for the local rabbit warrens. Curved or irregular shaped cuttings was sold as firewood.
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The Charles Burrell Museum opened in 1991 in the former Paint Shop of Charles Burrell & Sons on Minstergate in Thetford. The museum is dedicated to steam power and steam transport. The Ancient House Museum is situated in an oak-framed Tudor merchant's house on White Hart Street. It contains replicas of the Thetford Hoard and has numerous displays about flinting, rabbit warrens and wildlife.
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In 1630 the area was dominated by rabbit warrens. Feeding by the large number of rabbits had caused the land to become scrubby and in the Victorian era rabbits were killed and sent daily to London by train. The Forestry Commission was set up by the government in 1919 in response to a shortage of wood and in 1925 they obtained a 999 year lease at the park to plant and harvest trees.
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Penrhyn slate quarry at Bethesda Rabbit warrens had no original prototype but their closest approaches were the Welsh slate quarry railways. The quarries were vast, with terraces carrying level grade, but poorly-laid and uneven track of 2' gauge, worked by the ubiquitous Hunslet saddle tanks. Unlike the rabbit warren, these levels were linked by rope-worked inclines, rather than loco- hauled spirals. Crossing and tunnels were commonplace though, often through embankments built of piled slate waste.
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However, the dingoes in general appeared not to be motivated to kill sheep, and in many cases just loped alongside the sheep before veering off to chase another sheep. For those that did kill and consume sheep, a large quantity of kangaroo was still in their diet, indicating once again a preference for kangaroo. Lone dingoes can run down a rabbit, but are more successful by targeting kittens near rabbit warrens. Dingoes take nestling birds, in addition to birds that are moulting and therefore cannot fly.
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The Ashmolean's involvement convinced the British Museum and the Society of Antiquaries to help fund the project. In 1982, Martin Carver from the University of York was appointed to run the excavation, with a research design aimed at exploring "the politics, social organisation and ideology" of Sutton Hoo. Despite opposition by those who considered that funds available could be better used for rescue archaeology, in 1983 the project went ahead. Carver believed in restoring the overgrown site, much of which was riddled with rabbit warrens.
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It features extensive Romanesque designs, including pilaster buttresses and arcading. Historians Beric Morley and David Gurney believe this to be "one of the finest of all Norman keeps", and its military utility and political symbolism have been extensively discussed by academics. The castle was originally surrounded by a carefully managed landscape, from the planned town in front of the castle, to the deer park and rabbit warrens that stretched out behind it, intended to be viewed from the lord's chamber in the great keep.
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Earthworks with the telecommunications tower in the background For many years it was thought that the earthworks were a part of the Wansdyke, but it is now thought improbable that Wansdyke crossed Bathampton Down. There is stronger evidence of agrarian activity with extant strip lynchets to the west of Bathwick Wood. There are also several pillow mounds, used as artificial rabbit warrens in the area known as Bathampton Warren. These date from 1256 when Henry III gave the right to hunt small game to the Bishop of Bath and Wells.
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By the late 1960s, Warringah Shire Council had recognised the inefficiencies of their headquarters in the Shire Hall at Brookvale, and that it was far too small for the needs of the growing council. In December 1968, the Shire President Colin Huntingdon noted that "A new Shire Hall is so overdue it isn't funny. The staff are working in rabbit warrens which doesn't help efficiency." Brookvale remained the administrative centre for Warringah until 1971 when the council resolved to commence the construction of a new Civic Centre in Dee Why.
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Great Lodge Bottom is an east-running dry valley, fairly open with hawthorn and blackthorn scrub. After crossing the Grand Avenue the valley runs into Red Vein Bottom () with its rough pasture and rabbit warrens. The path is joined by a small valley coming down from the pinetum (pine arboretum) at Braydon Hook () adjacent to Braydon Hook House. The path from Red Vein Bottom skirts the Ashdale Firs and passes some huge beeches before arriving at the Amity Oak (), an old tree which serves as a parish boundary marker.
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Venison remained the most heavily consumed food in most castles, particularly those surrounded by extensive parks or forests such as Barnard Castle, while prime cuts of venison were imported to those castles that lacked hunting grounds, such as Launceston.Creighton (2005), p. 19. By the late 13th century some castles were built within carefully "designed landscapes", sometimes drawing a distinction between an inner core of a herber, a small enclosed garden complete with orchards and small ponds, and an outer region with larger ponds and high status buildings such as "religious buildings, rabbit warrens, mills and settlements", potentially set within a park.
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While they usually take up already abandoned nest sites, sometimes long-eared owls are capable of chasing off prior occupant of nest even including other raptors (extending to fierce Accipiters such as sparrowhawks, sharp-shinned hawks and even larger Cooper's hawks) indicative of their potential for fierceness and tenacity. Other than other bird's nests, alternate nesting sites have been used but appear to be usually rare or uncommon. Among these, are shallow depressions on the ground. Some ground nest locations recorded (in Europe) have included among heather, bracken and bramble, and even on reed beds, rabbit warrens.
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From this decade onward, the meticulous excavation of various long barrows also led to the widespread recognition that long barrows were often multi- phase monuments which had been changed over time. An aerial photograph of the Selsey Long Barrow in Gloucestershire, southwest England Up until the 1970s, archaeologists widely believed that the long barrows of Western Europe were based on Near Eastern models. Archaeological investigation of long barrows has been hindered by the misidentification of other features. Long barrows have been confused with coniger mounds and rabbit warrens, sometimes termed pillow mounds, which can take on a similar shape.
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The Warren Lodge, built by the priory Thetford Forest was created after the First World War to provide a strategic reserve of timber, since the country had lost so many oaks and other slow-growing trees as a consequence of the war's demands. It is managed by the Forestry Commission. The creation of the forest destroyed much of the typical Breckland environment of gorse and sandy ridges, ending the frequent sand blows (where the wind picked up sand and blew it across the land reducing visibility). However, this environment was itself man-made, since the area had been denuded by flint-mining, the construction of rabbit warrens and other activities.
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Typical Egger-bahn stock for H0e gauge The rabbit warren was invented, or at least given its first UK prominence, by C. J. Freezer, long-term editor of Railway Modeller magazine. Rabbit warrens began their popularity in the mid-1960s, with the new H0e gauge narrow gauge models from Egger-bahn and later Jouef / Playcraft. These modelled the style of 600 mm Decauville or feldbahn types, although their scale gauge was closer to 750 mm gauge. Owing to the limitations of the model bodies and the mechanisms available, some oversizing of the frame spacing and gauge was needed. As these British layouts assumed the larger 00 scale of 4 mm to the foot (1:76.2), rather than H0's 1:87, the oversized locomotive bodies were now closer to scale size for the gauge.
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Hundreds of seabirds, including razorbills, guillemots, fulmars and kittiwakes, spend the summer nesting on the island's eastern cliffs, the numbers reflecting the fact that there are no land predators such as rats or foxes to worry about. On a dark moonless night an eerie cackling can be heard across the island as 16,000 pairs of Manx shearwaters, 5 per cent of the British population, come ashore to lay and incubate their eggs in abandoned rabbit warrens or newly dug burrows.Joint Nature Conservation Committee : Manx Shearwater, Puffinus puffinus Retrieved 16 August 2009 A bottlenose dolphin swimming in sunset in Porth Neigwl (Hell's Mouth) Bay The island is one of the best places in Gwynedd to see grey seals. In mid-summer over two hundred can be seen, sunbathing on the rocks or bobbing in the sea, and about fifteen pups are born each autumn.
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As the 7th Battalion approached the main bridge at Cloppenburg was demolished and the Germans strongly resisted before B Company and D Company were able to force a crossing via the remaining bridge and establish themselves on the other side of the river. A Company, the leading platoon commanded by Lt Daniels, then passed through B Company on the right and was immediately plunged into a confused, close-quarter battle among the streets and rabbit warrens of ruined houses’. A Company was ‘then harassed by two self-propelled guns firing at point-blank range down the main road, but because of the close nature of the engagement, it was impossible to provide fire support, nor could tanks be brought over the small remaining bridge. In the fierce fighting which ensued, Daniels was severely wounded in the face and head but refused to leave his platoon until he had reorganised it and handed it over to his sergeant. His dash, leadership and courage at Cloppenburg and throughout the whole campaign were recognised by the award of the MC’.
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The Burroughs was a distinct hamlet until the 1890s, and appears on an 1873 Ordnance Survey map of the area. The name, known from 1316 until the 19th Century as 'the burrows', doubtless refers to the keeping of rabbit warrens. There was an inn and brew-house by the 16th century for travellers, very possibly the White Bear, which was so-called from 1736, and was rebuilt in 1932. Here, the 'leet courts', based on feudal tradition, were held as late as 1916, to ensure the rights of the Lord of the Manor to control the increasingly emancipated peasantry, to punish transgressors, and to fix 'Quit-Rent' for those who had built on manorial land and wastes. By 1697 the inn was the location for Hendon's Whitsun fair. Originally an un-chartered hiring fair for local hay farmers, it was also renowned for dancing and country sports, and was immortalised in the lines of a song of the 1810s: :Then a soldier fond of battle, :Who has fought and bled in Spain, :Finds in Hendon air his metal, :Well stirred up to fight again.
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