Pound Green

Pound Green

Route 45
Pound Green
 Pound Green shown within Worcestershire
OS grid referenceSO757792
    London  134 miles (216 km) 
DistrictWyre Forest
Shire countyWorcestershire
RegionWest Midlands
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town BEWDLEY
Postcode district DY12
Dialling code 01299
Police West Mercia
Fire Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance West Midlands
EU Parliament West Midlands
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Coordinates: 52°24′15″N 2°21′38″W / 52.404138°N 2.360643°W / 52.404138; -2.360643

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.

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/. Retrieved 17 October 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  2. Davies, Nick (2015). Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature. Bloomsbury. p. 37. ISBN 9781408856567.
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