ha-ha

Tweeting pictures of ha-has

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What is a ha-ha and where does the word originate?

[Erik Bootsma🌸🇳🇱 @ErikBootsma]

@wrathofgnon Washington's estate Mount Vernon has a beautiful lawn featuring a ha-ha to keep the sheep in their place.

https://t.co/kn7IW1QMwc

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A beauty

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

The confusingly named Ha-ha is a landscaping adaptation/innovation by Capability Brown (1715-1783) to create a fence or barrier that is invisible from one side (as in the view from a stately manor house). You get beautiful uninterrupted vistas but sheep and cattle can't wander up to ruin your rosebushes. Has anyone tried doing something similar for parking lots or roads?

[ℝ𝕚𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕣 @The_East_End]

Ha-Ha Road, SE18 - this has nothing to do with Greenwich having a great sense of humour, but the fact that a Ha-ha is a sunken ditch, usually with a retaining wall, which provided a barrier without spoiling the view… #london #history

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@LakesStiles I’d best be in the look out then! 👀

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YESSSSSSSS

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@ceadela @ARLTClassics Any pics of the ha-ha?

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University of Essex, Colchester.

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Hylands House, Chelmsford

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The Hinton Ampner ha-ha

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Ha-ha at the Albury estate, Surrey. Some interesting brickwork.

[Ann Gate @ceadela]

@LakesStiles May this haha, which you missed in the branching thread earlier, warm them further 😊
Sarsden Glebe, W Oxon

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@ceadela @LakesStiles A wonderful example, and how nice to see the wildflowers.

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Hawkhills, near Easingwold in North Yorkshire. And the breathlessness isn’t me, as a friend sent me this. Stunning! Photos on the 🧵

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The @burghleyhouse ha-ha on the TV 😍

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@ModestMitkus 👋🏻

[Ecclesiastical Cones @Conecclesia]

Look very carefully. Some great antics taking place in Winchester over the festive period it seems!

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A small semi circle of Hinton Ampner ha-ha there I think.

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@LakesStiles You’ve got to love a ha-ha, but not if you fall down one.

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Some more of the ha-ha at #Petworth