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  • |name=Birch Green |picture=Birch Green - geograph.org.uk - 480720.jpg
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  • '''Birch Green''' may be: *[[Birch Green, Essex]]
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  • |name=Birch Green '''Birch Green''' is a residential district of [[Skelmersdale]], [[Lancashire]], jus
    493 B (65 words) - 15:23, 18 February 2015
  • |name=Birch Green '''Birch Green''' is a hamlet in [[Worcestershire]] found to the south of [[Worceste
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  • |name=Birch Hill '''Birch Hill''' is a [[Berkshire]] village which has grown to be a southern suburb
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  • |name=Birch Green |picture caption=Garlands Farm by Birch Green
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  • |name=Much Birch |picture caption=St Mary and St Thomas of Canterbury, Much Birch
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  • The number of hill tarns and little lakes is very great, considerably more than 200 being named. The forests consist chiefly of oak, Scotch fir, birch, ash, mountain-ash (rowan), holly, elm, hazel and Scots poplar, but there a
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  • ...nd thus vast stretches of woodland became pasture for sheep, leaving today little of the once mighty woodland. Midlothian' stream, the [[Gala Water]] falls into the Tweed a little below [[Galashiels]].
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  • ...o-Saxon history |accessdate=2008-04-21 |format=|work=Google Books |author1=Birch, Walter de Gray |year=1885 }}</ref>. Another British-language name is [[Tar ...istory, have been inhabited from the earliest days. Across the Levels are little rises forming islands on which the villages are built. Mesolithic hunters l
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  • ...threatened by destruction for agricultural intensification. There is very little natural forest in the county. Most natural trees and vegetation grow on hed
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  • *Birch, R. ''A Way of Life'', E.J.Morton Publishers, 1972. ISBN 0 901598 58 5 *Birch, R. ''Todmorden Album 4'', The Woodlands Press, 2006.
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  • Bracknell was designated a new town in 1949 and developed accordingly. Very little of the pre-existing village remains. ...site was originally a large village in the civil parish of Warfield. Very little of the original Bracknell is left. The location was preferred to [[White Wa
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  • * {{Cite book |last=Baines, Arnold &|first=Birch, Clive|title=Chesham Century |year=1994 |publisher=Quotes Limited |location
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  • The name Birkenhead is possibly from the Old English ''bircen'' meaning "birch trees", of which many once grew on the headland which jutted into the river
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  • ...hase, reintroducing shrubs such as heather in some areas where bracken and birch forest have displaced most other plants. The local flora also includes seve
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  • ...ing names of trees to individual letters. ''Beithe'' in Old Irish means ''Birch-tree'' (cognate to Latin ''betula''). There is reason to believe that the w ...her precarious position on a cliff-side, and from 1807-10 it was rebuilt a little further up the hill as the new Parish Church. The Heritors then moved the o
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  • Lanark, though full of history and pleasing townscapes, has little industry and is becoming a commuter town for [[Glasgow]] and [[Edinburgh]]. ...Traditionally, the townspeople carry "birks", which are small branches of birch trees cut from the woods at the Glenburnie estate (this particular traditio
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  • ...e name of which is believed to derive from the Gaelic ''Beithe'', meaning "birch woods", or possibly “settlement”. “Cowdenbeath” was originally the ...ough it is generally accepted that the word ‘Beath’ in Gaelic means ’birch wood’, PW Brown suggests that the word means ‘abode’ or ‘a settleme
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  • ...ossing.<ref>Lacey, Robert. ''Great Tales from English History''. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. ISBN 0-316-10910-X.</ref> Great Britain became an ...variety of trees of Britain and Ireland|trees, including native species of birch, beech, ash, hawthorn, elm, oak, yew, pine, cherry and apple.<ref name="tre
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  • .... The city was finally taken for Parliament on 18 December 1645 by Colonel Birch and Colonel Morgan. King Charles showed his gratitude to the city of Herefo
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  • ...s-shire]] in the valley of the [[River Spey]], where it meets the Calder a little downstream from [[Kingussie]]. The village has a population of about 1,000. ...Monadhliath Mountains, Newtonmore is surrounded by woodland. Larch, pine, birch and alder predominate, creating a glorious tapestry of colour as the leaves
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  • Devauden and the nearby hamlet of Fedw or Veddw (from Welsh ''Y fedw'', birch grove) were originally clusters of illicit cottages built as a base by wood ...received, I set out for Wales. About four in the afternoon I preached on a little green at the foot of the Devauden ... to three or four hundred plain people
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  • ...ish Gaelic of the ''Gall-Gaidel''; ''Dail Bheithe'' meaning "Valley of the Birch Trees".
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  • Until mediæval times, Ireland was heavily forested with oak, pine and birch. Forests today cover only about 9% (a million acres)<ref name="coillte">{{c
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  • Species of tree and shrub include Ash, Downy Birch, Hazel, Hawthorn, Yew and Rowan. In the woods shrubs such as Wild Privet an ...re. The heaps of mining waste remain, contaminated with lead, and on which little will grow. The few plants that will are known as 'lead plants' such as spri
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  • ...non-agricultural land surrounding the village is mainly open heathland and birch woodland. ...known as [[Frensham Great Pond|Frensham Great]] and [[Frensham Little Pond|Little Pond]]s, which were dug in the Middle Ages to provide fish for the Bishop o
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  • ...ger island as ''Great Britain'' (''Megale Britannia'') and to Ireland as ''Little Britain'' (''Mikra Brettania'') in his work, ''Almagest'' (147–148 AD). I ...are most common. Natural forests in Ireland are mainly oak, ash, wych elm, birch and pine. Beech and Tilia|lime, though not native to Ireland, are also comm
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  • ...ant and the blast furnace and rod mill. Limestone is provided by Singleton Birch at the nearby quarry in Melton Ross. Limestone is used as a flux for the bl
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  • .... It is a woodland of deciduous trees; a rich mixture of beech, ash, oak, birch and others. Pavis Wood itself is enclosed though open to the public by per ...it is officially noted as a habitat of poorly drained beech, oak, ash and birch grades to a beech hanger with ash and wych elm on the steepest part of the
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  • ...des from the 9th century until after the Treaty of Perth in 1266. However, little remains of their presence in the written or archaeological record on Skye. ...a cottage he can expect little more than shelter ; for the cottagers have little more for themselves but if his good fortune brings him to the residence of
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  • ...admire its structure from behind barbed wire. It was designed by Eugenius Birch with ironwork by the Isia Foundry of [[Newport, Monmouthshire]]. It is a Gr
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  • ...s the Caiplich Moors and in a turn north it enters the Glenlivet Estate, a little south of Tomintoul. It continues north along a deep valley between the Crom ...reckoned to be one of the most beautiful river valleys in Britain. On its birch and pine clad slopes scamper roe deer and brown hares while on the river bi
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  • ...Uchaf") is not always included, as it has the least relative height, being little more than a bump on the ridge rather than a separate summit in its own righ ...s are of the mixed deciduous type, the commonest tree being the Welsh oak. Birch, ash, mountain-ash and hazel are also common. The Park also contains some l
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  • ...ilt in 1899. It is beside the main A511 road, a short distance east of the Birch Tree public house. It had its own vicar, but is now part of a united benefi
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  • ...o the west. [[Conington, Huntingdonshire|Conington]] is along the lanes a little to the south and while the A1(M) passes through the farmland not fat west o [[File:Holme Fen.jpg|top|right|thumb|230px|Silver Birch Woodland at Holme Fen]]
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  • [[File:Holme Fen.jpg|top|right|thumb|300px|Silver Birch Woodland at Holme Fen]] Holme Fen is the largest silver birch woodland in lowland Britain. It contains approximately 12 acres of rare aci
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  • ...n the [[Domesday Book]] as ''Bercheuuei'' and the name is believed to ean "Birch Way".
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  • |name=Birch Green |picture=Birch Green - geograph.org.uk - 480720.jpg
    653 B (98 words) - 22:15, 18 June 2012
  • '''Birch Green''' may be: *[[Birch Green, Essex]]
    155 B (17 words) - 20:17, 19 June 2012
  • |name=Birch Green '''Birch Green''' is a residential district of [[Skelmersdale]], [[Lancashire]], jus
    493 B (65 words) - 15:23, 18 February 2015
  • |name=Birch Green '''Birch Green''' is a hamlet in [[Worcestershire]] found to the south of [[Worceste
    400 B (56 words) - 23:08, 22 June 2012
  • Warren Wood, an area of secondary birch oak and pine woodland and a large meadow, between Nine Mile Ride and Warren
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  • | Birch Hill || 518 || {{getmapecho|SJ52117384}} ([[Manley, Cheshire|Manley]])
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  • ...lage moved out of Church Road, known locally as ''The Butt'', and spread a little. At the junction with the track that led towards the mountains (Avondale Ro ...thority dwellings, Lakeside Gardens to the north east side of the village, Birch Hill, which can be found above the core village area and a number of older
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  • ...ame of the hill is from the Gaelic name is ''Sliabh Beatha'', which means "birch mountain".
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  • ...s from 1576 as "The Docke".<ref name=RBoD/> New docks designed by Eugenius Birch were opened in 1868, and a short line connected them to the railway goods y
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  • ...ly altered during Saxon times by selective cutting of trees. Today's beech-birch and oak-hornbeam-dominated forest was the result of partial forest clearanc ...s the Reindeer Inn, was built around a smaller hunt standing, known as the Little Standing. Its grounds were redesigned by Humphry Repton in the early 19th c
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  • ...d had left the island: the proprietor, his landlord seemed to have been as little fortunate as his tenant, for the island itself was in the market; and a rep ...tantial programme of re-introducing twenty native species including silver birch, hawthorn, rowan and holly.<ref>Ball. M.E. "Botany, Woodland and Forestry"
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  • The Normans changed little. Canvey recorded in the [[Domesday Book]] was a land of sheep farming past ...tination in the 1970s for artists of Pub rock genre of music<ref>{{harvnb |Birch |2000}}</ref> such as Graham Parker, Elvis Costello,<ref>The Elvis Costello
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  • ...n to maintain open downland by suppressing the natural growth of scrub and birch woodland. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Youth Hostels Association establishe
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  • ...outh of the Common, Birch Coppice is a large area of predominantly oak and birch woodland, which, although crossed by a now-dismantled railway line, mostly ...History Centre | year=1996| isbn=0-946652-42-2|pages=49}}</ref> There was little further development in the 1980s and 1990s, and the feeling of the local co
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  • ...[Kippax]], [[Swillington]], [[Methley]] and [[Allerton Bywater]] Great and Little Preston are all villages that prospered and grew as a result of the coal in ...342221|work= Yorkshire Post|accessdate = 7 September 2015}}</ref> and John Birch of Leeds, England & Great Britain rugby league teams. The village was also
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  • ...major part of Dukinfield's industrial history, one pithead was located on Birch Lane, now the site of All Saints' Catholic College, with another near the n
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  • ...le soils we see chestnut and stands of hazel and oak, while Scots pine and birch colonise the poorer soils.<ref name="GSWK">Greensand Way in Kent, 1992, Ken ...turies large quantities were excavated. Resources are now running low and little is now extracted.<ref>Cowan (1997), p.41.</ref>
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  • ...pun form had been introduced to make fustians and lighter cloths.<ref name=birch/> ...ere carpenters, and John Bennet and John Robinson were clothiers.<ref name=birch/>
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  • ...of Thornsett, [[Hague Bar]], [[Rowarth]], [[Brookbottom]], Gowhole, and [[Birch Vale]]. ...Kinder Scout]]; the Sett flows through [[Hayfield]] before passing through Birch Vale to the Torrs and the River Goyt. The Goyt rises on the moors of [[Axe
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  • ...]], it then follows alongside the St Ives Bay railway line into the lively little town of [[St Ives, Cornwall|St Ives]]. The path passes the east-facing Port .../ref> [[Lamorna]] Cove is a favourite with artists such as S. J. "Lamorna" Birch, who lived there in a small cottage. Then, after rounding Carn Du, the path
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  • ...ollowers of Bereca" (an otherwise unrecorded chieftain) or "the men by the birch trees". ...ing involved fish being ferried from fishing smacks to steamer-carriers by little wooden ferry-boats. The rowers had to stand as the boats were piled high wi
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  • ...gle holds Witley (meaning "white forest", perhaps on account of the silver birch trees). The area had land enough for 16 ploughs but was under-worked. There
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  • ...]], [[Laindon]], [[Langdon Hills]], [[Lee Chapel]], [[Little Burstead]], [[Little Thurrock]], [[Mucking]], [[Nevendon]], [[North Benfleet]], [[Orsett]], [[Pi ...69,095||[[Barking]], [[Dagenham]], [[East Ham]], [[Ilford]], [[Leyton]], [[Little Ilford]], [[Walthamstow]], [[Wanstead]], [[West Ham]].<br />Within Havering
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  • ...in ''Rimecuda'' to Abingdon Abbey.<ref>However on B.1066, a charter which Birch identifies with Ringwood. {{brithist|56894|County History of Hampshire}} ([
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  • ...suggesting "scratched" or "scraped" in some sense.<ref>P N Wood, ''On the little British kingdom of Craven'' in ''Northern History 32'' (1996)</ref> In civi ...its south lie bleak sandstone moors, that above {{convert|275|m|x|0}} grow little but bracken.
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  • ...visible on the Ordnance Survey map of the area. Mediæval Darwen was tiny; little or nothing survives. One of the earliest remaining buildings is a farmhouse ...Nihil. Historical and Contemporary Jottings on Darwen 1889-1993 |publisher=Little Darren Books |location=Darwen |year=1993 |oclc= 29389745}}</ref> Today Darw
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  • Although the local gentry supported the Royalists, the English Civil War had little effect on the area. Troops would occasionally pass through the parish<ref n ...were first produced and sold in Eccles in 1793, from a shop owned by James Birch. They are a tradition of the town, made from a recipe of [[flaky pastry]],
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  • ...ref> A sports hall stands adjacent to the football and cricket pitches in Birch Park.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.northlincs.gov.uk/leisure/leisure-cent
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  • ...olnshire]]. It has a recorded population of 28,722 as at the 2011 census. Little London is a hamlet directly south of Spalding on the B1172, whilst Pinchbec ...st majority of these are sold to large concerns such as supermarkets, with little being available for sale locally.
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  • ...onastery at [[Peterborough|Medeshamstede]] (later Peterborough Abbey).<ref>Birch, W. de Grey, ''Cartularium Saxonicum'', 3 vols., London, 1885-93, no.48.</r
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  • ...is settlement in its first recognisably modern form as ''Mildanhald'',<ref>Birch, page not cited</ref> meaning "a nook of land of a woman called Milde or a *{{cite book |editor1-last=Birch |editor1-first=Walter de Grey |title=Cartularium Saxonicum |origyear=1885 |
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  • Little is known of the town of Hailsham before the 1086 [[Domesday Book]], but evi ...thin the Country Park have a very good selection of tree species including birch, oak, ash, maple and wild cherry. Wildlife residing in the area includes vo
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  • ...d is a grand fall, but is so naked in its accompaniments that ... it is of little value.}} ...e conifers are mixed with Sorbus aucuparia|Mountain Ash, Willow, Aspen and Birch.
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  • ...g the tree species planted here are sessile oak, cherry, field maple, ash, birch, rowan, walnut, whitebeam and larch. Some of the shrub species found here a ...le:Little Lane Easingwold - geograph.org.uk - 628985.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Little Lane]]
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  • ...nds. The heath and bogland is home to a variety of plants, including Dwarf Birch, Cloudberry, Dwarf Cornel and Alpine Bearberry. The site is an important br
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  • ...nimals is controlled. This has led to a regrowth of the native woodland of birch, alder, willow, rowan and oak. The site is also an important breeding groun
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  • The glen contains native tree species such as common alder, downy birch, sessile oak and rowan. Parts of the northern flanks of the upper glen have
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  • ...es inhabit the woods. The area around the summit is mainly heathland, with birch, oak and sweet chestnut trees in the woods at the northern end. [[Kingsford
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  • ...x gallii'', Bramble ''Rubus fruticosus'', Bracken ''Pteridium aquilinum'', Birch ''Betula'' spp., Hawthorn ''Crataegus monogyna'', Rowan ''Sorbus aucuparia'
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  • *Silver Birch (chancel, corner towers)
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  • ...moor National Park }}</ref> Its sister cliff is the {{convert|250|m|ft|0}} Little Hangman, which marks the edge of Exmoor. There is little evidence of Roman occupation apart from two fortlets on the coast.<ref name
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  • File:New Forest sunset birch 02.jpg|A lone birch at sunset in the New Forest.
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  • '''Bartlow''' is a little village in the south-eastern corner of [[Cambridgeshire]], spilling over in ...Berkelawe'' in 1232, the name "Bartlow" is Old English or Norse and means "Birch (tree) mounds".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-Bar
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  • Birkdale probably takes its name from two Old Norse words, ''birki'' meaning "birch-copse" and ''dalr'' meaning "dale" or "valley".<ref>{{citation|url=http://m
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  • Remnants of ancient woodland comprising birch, rowan, hazel, wych elm, aspen and oak are scattered throughout the norther
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  • ...forest is visible at low tide along the beach, where stumps of oak, pine, birch, willow and hazel (preserved by the acid anaerobic conditions in the peat)
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  • ...ally an area of the broomsquire, who would harvest the heather, broom, and birch branches to make brooms.
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  • ...spp.), Douglas-fir (''Pseudotsuga menziesii''), and broadleaves including birch (''Betula'' spp.), Rowan (''Sorbus aucuparia''), cherry (''Prunus'' spp.),
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  • ...d from the Old English ''Beorc ham'' meaning "birch home" referring to the birch trees on the edge of [[Windsor]] Forest.<ref name=rbh>[http://www.berkshire
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  • |name=Birch Hill '''Birch Hill''' is a [[Berkshire]] village which has grown to be a southern suburb
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  • ...named ''Birkenhead'' on Merseyside. Penbedw has also been translated as ''birch-covered hill''.<ref name=Pembhist>{{cite web|title=Pembrokeshire History|ur
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  • Savernake (Coppices of Little Frith, Cobham Frith, Chisbury Wood, Haw Wood, ''etc.''), where farmland occ ...igh proportion of softwoods, placed outside the forest's core (for example Birch Copse in the southeast). This warden was too deeply imbued with tradition t
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  • Habitats include ancient woodland, birch and hazel coppice, marsh, ponds and pools and a meadow. Notable plants incl
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  • ...rve" (“The wood is the sole surviving example in Britain of a sub-alpine birch-juniper wood on basic soils“).</ref> It is also the most extensive and di
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  • ...pes are planted with a range of tree species, including native oak, rowan, birch and pine. Two non-native shrubs, Amelanchier and Gaultheria, are said by o
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  • ...ark'. It contains a range of trees including oak, sycamore, rowan, silver birch, willow and beech—some of which grew naturally during the site's period o
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  • ...species included elm, lime, yew, chestnut, fir, larch, beech, ash, silver birch, hazel, willow and alder.<ref name=Atlas_p34 /><ref>Bevan, p. 13</ref> The ...pid changes in water levels during its history, and contains the trunks of birch trees which died when the area flooded. It is now being colonised by alder
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  • ...the other two Cayman Islands, it is approximately 75 miles southwest of [[Little Cayman]] and 90 miles southwest of [[Cayman Brac]]. ...is Sister Islands, which consists of the islands of [[Cayman Brac]] and [[Little Cayman]].
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  • ...captured from Sir Henry Lingen by Parliamentarians led by Colonel Birch. Birch used a famous cannon cast in the [[Forest of Dean]] called Roaring Meg.
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  • ...r of the 1640s, Goodrich was finally successfully besieged by Colonel John Birch in 1646 with the help of the huge mortar known as "Roaring Meg", resulting ...have left their mark. Local stories tell that Colonel Birch's niece, Alice Birch, fell in love with a handsome Royalist, Charles Clifford; according to thes
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  • [[File:Sherwoodglade.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Birch trees in Sherwood Forest]]
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  • ...at one time of Castle Ashby Manor.<ref name="Birch1892">{{cite book|last2=Birch|first2=Walter de Gray|title=Catalogue of seals in the Department of manuscr
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  • ...d is of Beech, Oak, Ash, Small-leaved and Large-leaved Lime. There is also Birch, Field Maple, Aspen, Yew, Holly, Whitebeam, Alder and other species. The u
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  • [[File:Little Caldron - geograph.org.uk - 252597.jpg|right|thumb|250px|River Lednock pass Comrie has a little-known Charles Rennie Mackintosh building, a shop in the main street with a
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  • ...e house is a beautiful cob nut orchard bordered by rhododendron and silver birch and an alamanchea walkway to a beautiful ornate gate leading to fields and
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  • ...ore was locally obtained bog iron.<ref>Turner (1998) p. 107.</ref> Hazel, birch and willow grew in the area at this time but the pine and oak must have bee
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  • ...aday|2000|p=80}}</ref> In April 1646 Sir William Brereton and Colonel John Birch led a Parliamentary army from Hereford to take Ludlow; after a short siege
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  • ...ef> The Hangman Grits are described in three divisions: the lowest are the Little Quantock Beds, which are located near [[Crowcombe]], and made up of siltsto ...supports bog pimpernel (''Anagallis tenella''). The woodland is generally birch/sessile oak woodland, valley alder woodland and ash/wych elm woodland, whic
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  • ...lsides of the property in 2005. The cattle help to keep bracken and scrub birch trees under control, and to allow a variety of old grasses, heather, plus b ...of grazing caused its characteristic heathland to decline, as bracken and birch were allowed to invade.
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