Pound Green

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

Route 45
Pound Green
Location within Worcestershire
OS grid referenceSO757792
 London134 miles (216 km)
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBEWDLEY
Postcode districtDY12
Dialling code01299
PoliceWest Mercia
FireHereford and Worcester
AmbulanceWest Midlands

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". Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  2. Davies, Nick (2015). Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature. Bloomsbury. p. 37. ISBN 9781408856567.


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