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Underground homes

The 'UnderhillHouse House' a 20th-century house in West Yorkshire, dubbed the ‘Hobbit house’, believed to be first modern earth-sheltered house in Britain.
The Hobbit House, Wales built by Simon Dale as an environmental project.
Sod Houses were common among the rural poor in pre-war Holland. This picture is from Drenthe, Holland 1936 before WWII
Woolbrook Reservoir at Sidmouth in Devon was converted as a ‘self-build’ project by Robert and Ann Hardy from a storage tank they bought off South West Water in 2008
Rock Houses, a traditional living arrangement of the poor in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire

The Lars Homestead on planet Tatooine where Luke Skywalker grew up. The surface level dome house was a set constructed for the movie at Nefta, Tunisia while the courtyard pit was a real hotel, the Hôtel Sidi Driss in Tunisia, 250 miles away in Malmaison.

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 File:SodHouses.JPG| Sod Houses were common among the rural poor in pre-war Holland. This picture is from Drenthe, Holland 1936 before WWII
 File:WoolbrookResevoir-Devon.jpg|Woolbrook Reservoir at Sidmouth in Devon was converted as a ‘self-build’ project by Robert and Ann Hardy from a storage tank they bought off South West Water in 2008
+File:RockHouses-Mansfield.jpg|Rock Houses, a traditional living arrangement of the poor in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
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