A domestic warren is an artificial, enclosed establishment of animal husbandry dedicated to the raising of rabbits for meat and fur. It evolved from the Anglo-Norman concept of free warren, which had been, essentially, the equivalent of a hunting license for a given woodlands. In a draw in a mountainous region, a shepherd guides a flock of about 20 sheep amidst scrub and olive trees. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... A hunter on horseback shoots at deer or elk with a bow. ... It has been suggested that Licensing (strategic alliance) be merged into this article or section. ... Woodlands refers to several places in the world: Woodlands, Dorset, England Woodlands, Glasgow, Scotland Woodlands, Falkirk, Scotland Woodlands, Lusaka, Zambia Woodlands, Singapore Woodlands, South Africa Woodlands, South Yorkshire Woodlands, Western Australia Woodlands is also a part of the name of: The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America The Woodlands High...

Difference between free warren and domestic warren

The distinction between the two types of warren has been nearly lost in modern English, the older sense of free warren gradually evolving into that of domestic warren. The older sense dates at least from the Assize of Woodstock in 1178^[1] the first recorded use of the newer, domestic sense dates from 1378 (OED), as the draconian grip of the Forest Law was beginning to loosen somewhat. Events June 18 - Five Canterbury monks see what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed The Sung Document written detailing the discovery of Mu-Lan-Pi (suggested by some to be California) by Muslim sailors The Chronicle of Gervase of Canterbury written The Leaning Tower of Pisa begins to... Events March - John Wyclif tried to gain public favour by laying his theses before parliament, and then made them public in a tract. ... OED stands for Oxford English Dictionary Office of Enrollment & Discipline This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Forrest Law is a character in the Tekken fighting game series. ...

Then a semantic shift occurred as the terminology "beasts (including rabbit) of warren" and the "vert of warren" became a "warren of rabbits", "rabbit warren", and simply "warren'. The name was appropriated by the commoners who wished to raise domestic rabbits, even though the first necessity for their enterprise was to enclose the area sheltering their stock.^[2] Binomial name Oryctolagus cuniculus (Linnaeus, 1758) The European Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is a species of rabbit native to southern Europe. ... A commoner, in British law, is someone who is neither the Sovereign nor a noble. ... A Netherland dwarf breed domestic rabbit. ...

This was because only by creating a close, or enclosed area for the freeholder's domestic stock of rabbits, could that person claim ownership of the rabbits in it. A domestic rabbit which escaped into a nearby free warren could not be claimed as property, even if the freeholder held title to the soil over which the warren extended, unless that individual also possessed the royal warrant of them, or unless it had escaped from the freeholder's close. A rabbit escaped from the cony-garth could still be claimed as property of the freeholder, so long as recapture appeared possible.

Both types of warren differ from the cunicularium in that the former evolved from forest law, whereas the latter is created especially for the purpose of domestication, usually close to a manor, monastery, or farm house. In all this it should be born in mind that there is a continuous gradation from "wild" to "domesticated", and that distinctions along this scale may be more astutely deemed as differences of degree, rather than of kind. A royal forest is arguably the first step along the road to domestication. One might see a proportion in the likeness, that, as chase is to a park, so is a free warren to a domestic warren. Forrest Law is a character in the Tekken fighting game series. ... This article deals with an aspect of land management as it has been in England since the late eleventh century. ...

Architecture of the domestic warren

The cunicularia of the monasteries may have more closely resembled hutches or pens, than the open enclosures with specialized structures which the domestic warren eventually became. Such an enclosure or close was called a cony-garth, or sometimes conegar, coneygree or "bury" (from "burrow"). Hutch can refer to any of the following: A form of furniture A type of cage utilized primarily for housing domestic rabbits A character in the television series Starsky & Hutch Hutch, a popular musician in the 1930s Hutch, a cellular phone service provider in India Hutch is an act of...

Moat and pale

To keep the rabbits from escaping, domestic warrens were usually provided with a fairly substantive moat, or ditch filled with water. Rabbits cannot swim and generally avoid water. A pale, or fence, was provided to exclude predators. The moated manor house of Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire, England Moats (also known as a Fosse) were deep and wide water-filled trenches, excavated to provide a barrier against attack upon castle ramparts or other fortifications. ...

Pillow mounds

The most characteristic structure of the "cony-garth" ("rabbit-yard")^[3] is the pillow mound. These were "pillow-like", oblong mounds with flat tops, frequently described as being "cigar-shaped", and sometimes arranged like the letter <E> or into more extensive, interconnected rows. Often these were provided with pre-built, stone-lined tunnels. The preferred orientation was on a gentle slope, with the arms extending downhill, to facilitate drainage. The soil needed to be soft, to accommodate further burrowing. See Schematic diagram of a pillow mound.

This type of architecture and animal husbandry has become obsolete, but numerous pillow mounds are still to be found in England, some of them maintained by English Heritage. Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi   - Water (%) Population... English Heritage is a United Kingdom government body with a broad remit of managing the historic environment of England. ...

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Further evolution of the term

Ultimately, the term warren was generalized to include wild burrows:^[4]

The word thus became used of a piece of ground preserved for these beasts of warren. It is now applied loosely to any piece of ground, whether preserved or not, where rabbits breed (see FOREST LAWS).

The use is further extended to any system of burrows, e.g. prairie dog warren. By 1649 the term is found applied to inferior, crowded human accommodations in the meaning "cluster of densely populated living spaces" (OED). Contemporarily the leading use seems to be in the stock phrase "warren of cubicles" in the workplace. Species Cynomys gunnisoni Cynomys leucurus Cynomys ludovicianus Cynomys mexicanus Cynomys parvidens Prairie dogs are small stout-bodied burrowing rodents with shallow cheek pouches native to both North and Central America. ... // Events January 30 - King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded. ... OED stands for Oxford English Dictionary Office of Enrollment & Discipline This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

1. ^ The Assize of the Forest (Woodstock) 1184 Henry II
2. ^ Cf. French »1 garenne Noun, feminine "rabbit warren"; 2 garenne Noun, masculine "wild rabbit"«.
3. ^ English Garth "small, enclosed plot" is from Old Norse garðr "yard, courtyard, fence".
4. ^ 1911 Encyclopedia s.v. Warren; see also 1911 Encyclopedia s.v. Forest Laws