{"id":933,"date":"2018-10-19T15:28:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T14:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavitreequarrytrails.org.uk\/?p=933"},"modified":"2018-10-19T15:44:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T14:44:03","slug":"the-butts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/the-butts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Butts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/B.png\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"default\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/B-640x1024.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/B-640x1024.png 640w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/B-188x300.png 188w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/B-768x1229.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Along the west side of the Pleasure Grounds, backing onto the gardens of Roseland Avenue, is a wall of Heavitree Stone. It marks the boundary of three old fields: Lower, Middle and Higher Butts.<\/p>\n<p>One of the meanings of the word \u2018Butts\u2019 was a place where boys and men had to practise their archery in the days before guns. These fields were long and narrow, just the shape you would want for archery practice! Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our own ready-made Heavitree Stone Trail <a href=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/follow\/heavitree-stone-trails\/\">1: Heavitree<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"default\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"4bbde3b0\" href='https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Butts-3-credit-tbc.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Butts-3-credit-tbc-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Butts - credit tbc\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Butts-3-credit-tbc-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Butts-3-credit-tbc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Butts-3-credit-tbc.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"default\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"4bbde3b0\" href='https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Butts-2-credit-tbc.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Butts-2-credit-tbc-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Butts-2-credit-tbc-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Butts-2-credit-tbc.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along the west side of the Pleasure Grounds, backing onto the gardens of Roseland Avenue, is a wall of Heavitree Stone. It marks the boundary of three old fields: Lower, Middle and Higher Butts. One of the meanings of the word \u2018Butts\u2019 was a place where boys and men had to practise their archery in &#8230; <a title=\"The Butts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/the-butts\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Butts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sites","category-public-amenities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/hqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}