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Chester Terrace is one of the neo-classical terraces in Regent's Park, London. The terrace has the longest unbroken facade in Regent's Park, of about 280 metres (920 ft). [2] It takes its name from one of the titles of George IV before he became king, Earl of Chester. [3] It now lies within the London Borough of Camden.
Rice terraces in Sa Pa, Vietnam. Rice terraces of the Hani people in Yunnan, China. Rice terrace in the Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. A terrace in agriculture is a flat surface that has been cut into hills or mountains to provide areas for the cultivation for crops, as a method of more effective farming. Terrace agriculture or cultivation is when ...
Edging can be done both alone and with a partner. Edging, sometimes also referred to as gooning [1] [2] [Note 1] or surfing, [3] is a sexual technique whereby an orgasm is controlled (that is, delayed or prevented).
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Though many working-class people lived in terraces, they were also popular with middle classes in some areas, particularly the North of England. In 1914, despite the introduction of newer housing, terraces still catered for 71% of the population in Leeds. In some areas, these terraces contained 70–80 houses per acre. [4]
East side of the Place des Vosges in Paris, one of the earliest examples of terraced housing. A terrace, terraced house (), or townhouse [a] is a type of medium-density housing which first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses sharing side walls.
A water channel to drain and irrigate andenes. Andenes were complicated to build, requiring provisions for drainage and irrigation. The first step in constructing an andén was to lay an underground or bedrock foundation about 1 metre (3.3 ft) deep to lend strength and stability to the retaining wall, which might rise about 2 metres (6.6 ft) above the slope of the ground.
By 1957 the freeholder of the terrace, the Crown Estate, had adopted the policy of returning it, and the other Nash terraces, to private residential use, [6] as recommended ten years earlier in the report of a government committee on the post-war future of the terraces.