Pound Green

Pound Green
Route 45
Pound Green Location within Worcestershire
OS grid reference	SO757792
•  London	134 miles (216 km)
District	Wyre Forest
Shire county	Worcestershire
Region	West Midlands
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
List of places UK England Worcestershire 52°24′15″N2°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. 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

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