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The Midlands hedge is designed primarily as a bullock fence. Typically, it is ditched along one side but lacks a bank, or has only a slight bank formed by periodically mucking the ditch out onto the roots of the shrubs. Ditches, although perhaps at first boundary features associated with banks, later were used mainly for...