Pound Green
Appearance
Pound Green | |
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![]() Route 45 | |
Location within Worcestershire | |
OS grid reference | SO757792 |
• London | 134 miles (216 km) |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | BEWDLEY |
Postcode district | DY12 |
Dialling code | 01299 |
Police | West Mercia |
Fire | Hereford and Worcester |
Ambulance | West Midlands |
Pound Green is a hamlet in Upper Arley, Worcestershire, England. It has a number of tourist landmarks such as Ye Olde New Inn and a village hall that also serves Button Oak village. Historically, the village is within the boundaries of Staffordshire.
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
[edit]- ^ "Pound Green Common". Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ Davies, Nick (2015). Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature. Bloomsbury. p. 37. ISBN 9781408856567.