Skylarks like open farmland, rolling grassland, moorland and upland heath.
To some, this rice-growing on open farmland is a step too far.
Between 1880 and 1920, the open farmland and rolling hills attracted industrialists looking for space to build country houses.
As Iowa marches toward the Republican caucuses, much of the politicking has been set against the timeless backdrop of open farmland.
This suburban boom prompted the city to annex some 125 square miles (324 square km) in 1889, which included many adjacent communities and also much open farmland.
Passing woods and crossing fields, the route makes its way to the hamlet of Bridge Street before returning to Melford Hall via streams, leafy glades and open farmland.
Manhattan traffic lengthens the trip between these dissimilar points, one marked by acres of open farmland and the other by highway interchanges and sports complexes.
In Hopewell, Merrill Lynch found 450 acres of open farmland that had been owned, with development in mind, by Bristol-Myers Squibb, the pharmaceutical concern, from 1955.
In Illinois, Ms. DeClue's high-voltage electrical crew worked in open farmland, with no gas stations or even trees to hide behind.
These shy beauties were at their peak around 1900, when there was plenty of open farmland and apple orchards with good nesting holes.
Apart from a few Victorian farm buildings, it is still open farmland, surrounded by the jagged remains of massive Roman walls.
