Because of its architecture which has been maintained as it was at the beginning of the 17th century, it is also a well-known landmark within the very distinct geophysical and geocultural entity that is the end of Vexin normand and the forest of Lyons around the town is the border with Pays de Bray known for its traditional bocage landscape of woods, orchards and cattle economy.

The plateau consists of typical Norman bocage and is bounded by the Seine estuary to the north, the Risle valley to the east, the Charentonne valley to the south and, in the west, the Pays d ' Auge which corresponds to the Touques basin.

It can also mean " stockade ", but it may have been used here because this part of Normandy is characterized by centuries-old interlocking hedgerows ( bocage ).

This is sometimes typefied as a bocage landscape, attracting many tourists from other parts of the country, with popular sights such as the Lutterzand on the meandering Dinkel, or the wide heather fields on the Frezenbaarg near Markelo.

The landscape is of bocage, a land use which arises from its clay soil ; suited to the development of pasture for the raising of dairy cattle.

The countryside is bocage ( woodlands ), resulting in independent individuals within the community, organized around the parish and the commune.

In part, operations were slow due to the constraints of the bocage landscape of densely-packed banked hedgerows, sunken lanes, and small woods, for which U. S. units had not trained.

The bocage country of small fields and orchards surrounded by thick hedges was of greater advantage to the German defenders than to the Allied troops and the battalion sustained many casualties from snipers, mortar and shell fire.

The Germans had the high ground, and the fighting was further complicated by the bocage countryside — a series of farmers fields and pastures forming a latticework, with each unit separated by walls of earth up to six feet high supporting dense shrubbery and trees.

* The Norman Pays de Bray, with its hills and bocage landscape.

In an attempt to overcome the mobility constraints of the bocage that had made offensive operations so difficult and costly for both sides, " Rhino " modifications were made to some M4 Sherman and M5A1 Stuart tanks, and M10 tank destroyers, by fitting them with hedge-breaching ' tusks ' that were capable of forcing a path through the Norman hedgerows.

After helping orchestrate D-Day with work on the structure of the proposed landing sites as well as the bocage countryside beyond, Bernal landed, according to C. P. Snow, at Normandy on the afternoon of D-Day + 1 in the uniform of an Instructor-Lieutenant RN to record the effectiveness of the plans.

The bocage typical of the western areas caused problems for the invading forces in the Battle of Normandy.

" If VII Corps ' efforts were successful the western German position would become untenable, permitting a relatively easy advance to the southwest end of the bocage to cut off and seize the Brittany peninsula.

The bocage form of the word came to English notice during the Second World War.

Marie claims that by this point in the campaign the British should have known better than to attempt an armoured advance unsupported by infantry in the bocage, and goes on to criticise both sides: the British for fighting an uncoordinated infantry and tank battle during the morning of 13 June, and the Germans for doing much the same throughout the whole day.

Once a corridor had been created, the First Army would then be able to advance into Brittany, rolling up the German flanks and freeing itself of the constraints imposed by operating in the Norman bocage countryside.

By 31 July, XIX Corps had destroyed the last forces opposing the First Army, and Bradley's troops were finally freed from the bocage.

They also occupied ideal terrain for defence, the bocage.

The bocage landscape in the Cotentin Peninsula impeded the Allied advance.

After breaking out of the bocage, VIII Corps was able to roll fifty miles in seven days, but it, and the remainder of Bradley's First Army, remained bottled up on the Cotentin Peninsula.

The rest of the division saw heavy fighting in the bocage ( or hedgerow ) country defending Saint-Lô against the Americans.

In mid-July 1944, the First United States Army became stalled in its operations in the Norman bocage.

The town contains many medieval and Elizabethan streetscapes and is a patchwork of narrow lanes and stone stairways.

" ommercial law is a confusing patchwork of narrow statutes and an outdated civil code.

Naturally this tendency is purely due to story conveniences ( or a somewhat haphazardly shifting patchwork pattern of authors ), and mainly that the fictional " continuity " has been maintained and expanded far beyond what Stan Lee and others originally planned or hoped for.

Quilting is often combined with embroidery, patchwork, applique, and other forms of needlework.

Whistleblowing in the U. S. is affected by a complex patchwork of contradictory laws.

To keep the batting from shifting, a patchwork or pieced quilt is often quilted by hand or machine using a running stitch in order to outline the individual shapes that make up the pieced top, or the quilting stitches may be random or highly ordered overall patterns that contrast with the patchwork composition.

A unique form of patchwork quilt is the crazy quilt.

A typical strip patchwork quilt is the Flying Geese pattern.

Stained glass window patchwork is a type of patchwork which simulates the effect of stained glass in church windows.

Writing that Mexico is composed of a vast patchwork of differences – linguistic, ethnic, and class-based – King says " The Virgin of Guadalupe is the rubber band that binds this disparate nation into a whole.

There is an annual events programme with assorted events including jousting tournaments and archery displays in the summer months and an annual patchwork and quilting exhibition in September.

The latter wears a patchwork of red, green and blue diamonds that is still a fashion motif.

The “ patchwork ” of the top is typically made of a series of blocks ( all identical, or of diverse design ), which are made sequentially and then assembled.

Created by the Native Americans of southern Florida, Seminole strip piecing is based on a simple form of decorative patchwork.

Seminole patchwork is created by joining a series of horizontal strips, each of which is added to produce repetitive geometric designs.

Sewing is the fundamental process underlying a variety of textile arts and crafts, including embroidery, tapestry, quilting, appliqué and patchwork.

This patchwork still survives and is represented by the Catholic and Orthodox churches that primarily dot the North Scranton, West Side, and South Side neighborhoods of the city ; a substantial Jewish community was established as well.

The land, as a whole, is a patchwork of mesquite, and farm fields dotted with old oil wells.

With the exception of the south east, the island is very flat, and covered with a patchwork of peat bogs, low hills and lochans, with more than half the land being covered by water.

Within the brothel it is said prostitutes worked in a small room usually with an entrance marked by a patchwork curtain.