Pound Green

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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.

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]

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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