what is a dog-leg in relation to land/fence

ey143

I'm just reading some notes from a conveyance on a property I am buying and it refers to a dog-leg on the land/fence. What does this mean - I have never heard of this term nor can I find any reference to it on the net.

Thanks.

Davesnave

It just means a sharp change of direction, as in 'dog leg staircase.'

ey143

Thx. Never heard of that phrase before.

ValHaller

I would expect a sharp change of direction followed by another sharp change taking the fence in more or less the same direction but offset by a small distance.

pinkteapot

Property listing written by an EA who plays golf?

ey143

That would make sense having seen the garden and the ordinance survey - garden gets wider as you go further back after a kind of kink (or dog-leg) half way down.

agrinnall

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogleg

googler

or

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dogleg

ey143

Ok thanks. One other question related to soak aways. Can these be used to store water in a pit in the garden to use for watering plants etc or does it have to soak into the ground and therefore lose the rain water from the guttering etc?

Mr_Moo_2

A soakaway will be built into the ground to take water discharge from roofs etc. No real reason why you couldn't build some kind of underground storage but would be much cheaper and easier to buy a water butt.........

G_M

Unless the soakaway is part of a septic tank run-off.........