Wikipedia says they are also known as hollow way - you learn something
every day. Sunken Lane appears to be the preferred terminology however.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunken_lane
Why historic? It still is a sunken lane. If you go back a couple of
hundred years it probably wasn't though - the level has lowered through
erosion over a very long period.
It is a way in a cutting, but a special type of cutting whereby it is
not deliberately lowered by a single act of man (or highways authority
or whatever). As such I think cutting=sunken_lane feels good.
On 2018-02-19 11:48, joost schouppe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hollow way is probably a germanism; it's what sunken lanes are literally
> called in Dutch too. I absolutely agree that we should stick to British
> English for tags, wherever possible. So if we change the proposal to
> historic=sunken_lane, then we're all set for voting, right?
>
> Almost all the hollow_way's in Germany seem to have been made in one go
> (looking at taghistory.raifer.tech), so I think that means there's a decent
> chance for a relatively massive change operation.
>
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