warpland

plural warplands

1. countableuncountableUndulating land, built up by river alluvium, particularly in Britain.

   […] two centuries ago. Moulde-warp is the Yorkshire name [for the mole], meaning the piler up of mould [earth]. The "warplands" of the coast recall the old verb.

   1907, Charles John Cornish, Animal Artisans, and Other Studies of Birds and Beasts, page 185

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   […] the warplands of the Trent and Humber, the heart of the Vale of Eve- sham and a few other areas.11 The Wirral peninsula is shown as good grassland. Historical Aspects Liverpool became a borough in 1207, when its burgesses were given[…]

   1959, Thomas Walter Freeman, The Conurbations of Great Britain, Manchester University Press, page 100

   […] The warplands, areas of tidal alluvium deposited naturally or artificially along the banks of the Ouse and Humber especially near Howden, are areas of rich cash-cropping, mainly potatoes, sugar-beet, peas and cereals. Horti[…]

   1962 January 2, J. B. Mitchell, Great Britain: Geographical Essays, CUP Archive, →ISBN, page 394

   […] the warplands and adjoining areas by NERC / CASE student J. Atherton continued. Further sampling for study of the mineralogical, chemical, micromorphological and water holding properties of the soils was carried out in the autumn[…]

   1985, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Report

   […] the warplands of the lower Trent and Humber; others are the brick- earths (wind-blown material) in North Kent, the Sussex coastal plain, south-east Essex, parts of Hertfordshire and the Mendip plateau. There are also the[…]

   2012 December 2, J. A. R. Lockhart, A. J. L. Wiseman, Introduction to Crop Husbandry: Including Grassland, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 30

   […] the 'warplands' of the Humberhead Levels. Field. boundary. trees. as. economic. resources. in. the. past. It is often forgotten how important hedges were in the past, not only for separating one property from another or being stockproof[…]

   2013 July 5, Ian D. Rotherham, Christine Handley, Mauro Agnoletti, Tomasz Samojlik, Trees Beyond the Wood (colour), Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 149