Do other countries have a wooden fence between houses?

"good fences make neighbours" robert frost

fence freestanding structure designed restrict or prevent movement across boundary. distinguished wall lightness of construction: wall restricted such barriers made solid brick or concrete, blocking vision passage (though definitions overlap somewhat).

fences constructed several purposes, including:

agricultural fencing, keep livestock in or predators out
privacy fencing, provide privacy
temporary fencing, provide safety , security, , direct movement, wherever temporary access control required, on building , construction sites
perimeter fencing, prevent trespassing or theft and/or keep children , pets wandering away.
decorative fencing, enhance appearance of property, garden or other landscaping
boundary fencing, demarcate piece of real property

requirements of use:

following types of areas or facilities have fenced in:

facilities open high-voltage equipment (transformer stations, mast radiators). transformer stations surrounded barbed-wire fences. around mast radiators, wooden fences used avoid problem of eddy currents.
railway lines (in united kingdom)
fixed machinery dangerous mobile parts (for example @ merry go rounds on entertainment parks)
explosive factories , quarry stores
industrial plants
airfields
military areas
prisons
zoos , wildlife parks
pastures containing male breeding animals, notably bulls , stallions.
open-air areas charge entry fee
domestic swimming , spa pools

legal issues

typical urban fence.
decorative palace fence (in st petersburg)fences can source of bitter arguments between neighbours, , there special laws deal these problems. common disagreements include kind of fence required, kind of repairs needed, , how share costs.

in legislatures standard height of fence limited, , exceed special permit required.

[edit] history
servitudes legal arrangements of land use arising out of private agreements. under feudal system, land in england cultivated in common fields, peasants allocated strips of arable land used support needs of local village or manor. sixteenth century growth of population , prosperity provided incentives landowners use land in more profitable ways, dispossessing peasantry. common fields aggregated , enclosed large , enterprising farmers—either through negotiation among 1 or lease landlord—to maximize productivity of available land , contain livestock. fences redefined means land used, resulting in modern law of servitudes.[1]


wattle fence @ sanok-skansen outdoor museum in polandin united states, earliest settlers claimed land fencing in. later, american government formed, unsettled land became technically owned government , programs register land ownership developed, making raw land available low prices or free, if owner improved property, including construction of fences. however, remaining vast tracts of unsettled land used commons, or, in american west, "open range." degradation of habitat developed due overgrazing , tragedy of commons situation arose, common areas began either allocated individual landowners via mechanisms such homestead act , desert land act , fenced in, or, if kept in public hands, leased individual users limited purposes, fences built separate tracts of public , private land.

[edit] united kingdom
ownership of fence varies. in parts of country boundaries shared; in other parts of country may own boundary on left-hand or right-hand side, however, title deeds can depended on tell side yours. (a 't' symbol indicates owner). used normal cladding on non-owners side (enabling access posts owner when repairs need doing), increasingly cannot depended on.

fence or hedge has adjacent ditch, ditch in same ownership hedge or fence, ownership boundary being edge of ditch furthest fence or hedge[2]. principle of rule owner digging boundary ditch dig edge of land, , must pile spoil on own side of ditch avoid trespassing on neighbour. may erect fence or hedge on spoil, leaving ditch on far side. exceptions occur, example plot of land derives fro

if not, separates houses each other?

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