Belt

Also called belts, perimeter belt

In the English landscape park, a broad band of woodland planted round the boundary to hide it and the land beyond, usually with a drive or ride inside it from which the park is seen.

Rules that use the word

Lawn to the door, clumps on the rises, a belt round the edge. Bring grass up to the walls of the house and keep the cattle off it with a ha-ha; plant trees in clumps on the rising ground and as single specimens on the lawn; and enclose the park with a belt of woodland, with a drive inside it from which the park is seen.

A zone for work, beyond a green belt. Place industry and other large work places in their own zone, served by road and rail, near the housing but separated from it by a belt of green.

Town and country married, and the belt kept for ever. Build a town of limited size (about 32,000 people on 1,000 acres) in the middle of an estate of 6,000 acres owned by the community, and keep the surrounding 5,000 acres as a permanent agricultural belt; when the town is full, found another beyond it.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Gardens and Landscape.

A feature of English landscape garden architecture.

Nearby in the glossary

Bay window · Beaux-Arts · Bedding out · Bekleidung · Béton brut · Bhumi · BIM · Bipedalis