Rural culture

thumb|Church Farm in Norfolk, [[England]] thumb|upright=0.9|Typical plan of a medieval English manor, showing the use of field strips

geographic area that is located outside towns and cities

right|thumb|Alvan Fisher, Pastoral Landscape, 1854

thumb|right|A thatched public house|pub (The Williams Arms) at [[Wrafton, North Devon, England]] Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. Since the bulk of the vegetation stays dry and is densely packed—trapping air—thatching also functions as insulation. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates. Thatch is still employed by builders in developing countries, usually with

population shift from rural to urban areas

range of political philosophies which prioritize the local management and sovereignty

alt=Photograph of Anne Hathaway's cottage, Stratford-upon-Avon.|thumb|Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare)|Anne Hathaway's cottage in [[Stratford-upon-Avon exemplifies the traditional style cottagecore prioritises. The garden designed by Ellen Willmott contains many herbs and flowers mentioned in Shakespeare's plays.]] Cottagecore is an internet aesthetic and subculture concerned with an idealised rural lifestyle. The aesthetic centres on traditional and vernacular architecture, clothing, interior design and crafts. Based primarily on the visual and material culture of rural Europe, cottagecore

British and Irish social class of wealthy land owners

1999 film directed by Icíar Bollaín

Unguarded cash container

legally defined farm type in all former socialist countries in CIS and CEE; small plot of land (typically less than 0.5 hectares) attached to a rural residence

phenomenon in political science