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'''Pound Green''' is a hamlet in the parish of [[Upper Arley]], [[Staffordshire]]. It has a number of tourist landmarks such as Ye Olde New Inn and a village hall that also serves [[Button Oak]] village. | '''Pound Green''' is a hamlet in the parish of [[Upper Arley]], [[Staffordshire]]. It has a number of tourist landmarks such as Ye Olde New Inn and a village hall that also serves [[Button Oak]] village. There is also an airfield for microlight aircraft and a campsite attached to Woodhouse Farm. | ||
Pound Green Common is an area of common land, west of the village <ref>{{cite web|title=Pound Green Common|url=http://common-land.com/lands/view/5963|website=http://common-land.com/|accessdate=17 October 2015}}</ref> which was the location of Edgar Chance's studies of the common cuckoo (''Cuculus canorus'') which included the first ever photography of a cuckoo laying her egg.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Davies|first1=Nick|author-link1=Nicholas Barry Davies|title=Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature|date=2015|publisher=Bloomsbury|page=37|isbn=9781408856567}}</ref> | Pound Green Common is an area of common land, west of the village <ref>{{cite web|title=Pound Green Common|url=http://common-land.com/lands/view/5963|website=http://common-land.com/|accessdate=17 October 2015}}</ref> which was the location of Edgar Chance's studies of the common cuckoo (''Cuculus canorus'') which included the first ever photography of a cuckoo laying her egg.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Davies|first1=Nick|author-link1=Nicholas Barry Davies|title=Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature|date=2015|publisher=Bloomsbury|page=37|isbn=9781408856567}}</ref> | ||
The woods to the south of Pound Green mark the southernmost point of Staffordshire. | |||
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Latest revision as of 16:03, 8 November 2016
| Pound Green | |
| Staffordshire | |
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| Location | |
| Location: | 52°24’15"N, 2°21’38"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Bewdley |
| Postcode: | DY12 |
| Dialling code: | 01299 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Wyre Forest |
Pound Green is a hamlet in the parish of Upper Arley, Staffordshire. It has a number of tourist landmarks such as Ye Olde New Inn and a village hall that also serves Button Oak village. There is also an airfield for microlight aircraft and a campsite attached to Woodhouse Farm.
Pound Green Common is an area of common land, west of the village [1] which was the location of Edgar Chance's studies of the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) which included the first ever photography of a cuckoo laying her egg.[2]
The woods to the south of Pound Green mark the southernmost point of Staffordshire.
References
- ↑ "Pound Green Common". http://common-land.com/lands/view/5963. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ Davies, Nick (2015). Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature. Bloomsbury. p. 37. ISBN 9781408856567.
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