Sentence examples for former farms from inspiring English sources

Tucked in among these and other former farms, two styles of single-family home predominate: Greek Revivals and ranches.

The fires also have left many residents on edge in this region crisscrossed by country lanes and dotted with former farms and long-empty mills.

Many plantations of larch occur on former farms throughout New York, but those plantations are most commonly European larch (L. decidua) or Japanese larch (L. kaempferi), both having much larger cones than the native species.

Today, Long Island developers continue to pursue their usual agenda of sprawl, as evidenced by the monstrosities they are building on former farms in Brookhaven and Riverhead — bigger and bigger houses in more and more remote areas.

Now, groups have formed to oppose what they believe is the threat of development on former farms and on other tracts that have become more valuable as prospects for country homes.

Detached single-family Tudors, ranches and Capes, built on the sites of former farms and summer resorts and typically made of brick, they have modest backyards and well-tended lawns, and are close to the street.

The cottages have traditional Welsh names based on their former farming uses.

The home he named Hard Scrabble is a former farm he took over in 1970.

Mr Chirac, a former farm minister who long represented rustic Corrèze, is committed to the countryside.

Cliveden's former farm, however, has been developed into residential properties.

Without a pause, one of the owner-breeder's former farm managers offered a safe home to the filly.