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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
  • |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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  • |name=Birch Vale |picture=Birch Vale 055401 56c02dad.jpg
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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
    23 KB (3,722 words) - 19:09, 5 January 2021
  • ...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]].
    7 KB (1,164 words) - 16:29, 6 May 2022
  • ...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
    42 KB (6,548 words) - 10:39, 3 November 2016
  • ...threatened by destruction for agricultural intensification. There is very little natural forest in the county. Most natural trees and vegetation grow on hed
    27 KB (4,024 words) - 20:58, 25 June 2017
  • *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.
    12 KB (1,809 words) - 21:28, 24 September 2014
  • 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
    9 KB (1,426 words) - 12:27, 9 August 2019
  • * {{Cite book |last=Baines, Arnold &|first=Birch, Clive|title=Chesham Century |year=1994 |publisher=Quotes Limited |location
    13 KB (2,052 words) - 13:16, 27 January 2016
  • 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
    10 KB (1,551 words) - 11:11, 27 June 2016
  • ...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
    5 KB (834 words) - 09:37, 2 December 2016
  • ...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
    32 KB (5,182 words) - 10:58, 17 March 2017
  • 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
    8 KB (1,231 words) - 11:37, 26 May 2020
  • ...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
    13 KB (2,135 words) - 17:50, 11 January 2016
  • ...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
    26 KB (4,060 words) - 21:45, 11 June 2019
  • .... 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
    10 KB (1,692 words) - 09:41, 30 March 2016
  • ...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
    5 KB (758 words) - 21:43, 26 May 2011
  • 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
    5 KB (792 words) - 22:53, 6 June 2011
  • ...ish Gaelic of the ''Gall-Gaidel''; ''Dail Bheithe'' meaning "Valley of the Birch Trees".
    5 KB (835 words) - 21:57, 17 August 2014
  • 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
    21 KB (3,162 words) - 21:47, 11 June 2019
  • 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
    14 KB (2,007 words) - 19:10, 10 June 2013
  • ...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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