Sett (paving)

a road paved with setts, often mistakenly named "cobblestones

A sett, usually the plural setts is a broadly rectangular quarried stone used originally for paving roads, today a decorative stone paving used in landscape architecture.^[1] A sett is distinct form a Cobblestone by being quarried or shaped to a regular form, whereas a cobblestone is generally naturally occurring.

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^ "Secret garden is a joy to behold". This Is South Wales .co.uk. 2009-02-25. Retrieved 2009-03-04. This is a garden of variation rather than variety. Hedges in subtly different colours and heights, paths sticking to the same small palette of materials, old timber from Swansea docks, granite setts, stone and brick but varying in pattern to suit the moment and the rhythm of the space, a small number of boldly used containers, lipped with jagged zinc, contain strong effects, from cloud-pruned box to a flat plane of granite setts.

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[1] "Secret garden is a joy to behold". This Is South Wales .co.uk. 2009-02-25. Retrieved 2009-03-04. This is a garden of variation rather than variety. Hedges in subtly different colours and heights, paths sticking to the same small palette of materials, old timber from Swansea docks, granite setts, stone and brick but varying in pattern to suit the moment and the rhythm of the space, a small number of boldly used containers, lipped with jagged zinc, contain strong effects, from cloud-pruned box to a flat plane of granite setts.

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