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The long acre or long paddock is a traditional term for wide grassy road verges. In some places, such as Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
 and parts of the British Isles
British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe that include Great Britain and Ireland, and numerous smaller islands....
, rural roads are often separated from adjoining paddocks and fields by both a hedge or fence and a wide grass verge
Verge

Verge may refer to:*Verge , which is open-source software for creating 2D games.* Road verge or simply Verge - the edge of a road which is sometimes called in the USA a tree lawn, or Roadside....
. Rather than leaving this verge fallow, farmers often tether livestock on it to utilise pasture
Pasture

Pasture is land with herbaceous vegetation cover used for grazing of ungulate livestock as part of a farm or ranch. Prior to the advent of factory farming, pasture was the primary source of food for grazing animals such as cattle and horses....
 feed (in the form of the grass) which would otherwise be wasted.






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The long acre or long paddock is a traditional term for wide grassy road verges. In some places, such as Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
 and parts of the British Isles
British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe that include Great Britain and Ireland, and numerous smaller islands....
, rural roads are often separated from adjoining paddocks and fields by both a hedge or fence and a wide grass verge
Verge

Verge may refer to:*Verge , which is open-source software for creating 2D games.* Road verge or simply Verge - the edge of a road which is sometimes called in the USA a tree lawn, or Roadside....
. Rather than leaving this verge fallow, farmers often tether livestock on it to utilise pasture
Pasture

Pasture is land with herbaceous vegetation cover used for grazing of ungulate livestock as part of a farm or ranch. Prior to the advent of factory farming, pasture was the primary source of food for grazing animals such as cattle and horses....
 feed (in the form of the grass) which would otherwise be wasted. Historically the long acre was also grazed by herds or flocks moving from place to place, either on long journeys, or from one small local field to another. The long acre provided an important resource for such flocks and herds, perhaps forming a significant part of a small farmer's pasture.

The use of the long acre as pasture has sometimes become formalised, for example in parts of England
England

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 where some have been been registered as common land
Common land

Depending on which part of the world, Common land , is a piece of land owned by one person, but over which other people can exercise certain traditional rights, such as allowing their livestock to graze upon it....
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See also

  • Drovers' road
  • Stock route
    Stock route

    In Australia, the Travelling Stock Route or TSR is an authorised thoroughfare for the walking of domestic livestock such as sheep or cattle from one location to another....