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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
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

  1. "Pound Green Common". http://common-land.com/lands/view/5963. Retrieved 17 October 2015. 
  2. Davies, Nick (2015). Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature. Bloomsbury. p. 37. ISBN 9781408856567. 

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