hop garden

plural hop gardens

1. UKagricultureA field, fields or farm where hops are grown.

   The line is now well into the Wealden hills. Running along the Teise valley, the slopes of which are covered in hop gardens, it falls at gradients of 1 in 106 and 213 to Goudhurst, 6⅜ miles out, [...].

   1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 172

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   On leaving Wye, we find the country changing character; the Downs come closer to the line, and grazing gives way to orchards and hop-gardens, with pleasant farm buildings, including oasthouses, another characteristic Kentish sight.

   1952 July, A. W. V. Mace, “The Ashford, Canterbury, and Ramsgate Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 436

   Synonyms: hopyard