hop garden

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A hop garden at a farm in Kent, England

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hop garden (plural hop gardens)

  1. (agriculture, British) A field, fields or farm where hops are grown.
    • 1952 July, A. W. V. Mace, “The Ashford, Canterbury, and Ramsgate Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 436:
      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.
    • 1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 172:
      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, [...].

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