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Edgbaston Pool

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announced that, after many years, it was withdrawing from its formal role in the management of the SSSI (whose designation it was instrumental in securing), due to a decline in the number of volunteers able to carry out that role. The site will now be managed by the golf club, under a new 99-year
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period. Maps from the 18th century show there used to be two ponds on the site but one has now been naturally filled in and overgrown. On the south side of the main pool, completed in 1790 and whose capacity is 59,100 m (77,300 cu yd), is an earthfill
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Environment Agency public register of Large Raised Reservoirs, as at 2 November 2020, via
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The pool's bird life has been recorded since at least the 1860s and has included
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or lake depending on the season. The second, the smaller section is
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and the Golf Club, in line with a management plan agreed with
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Coxhead, Peter (January 2012). "From the President".
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A lake surrounded by trees
Edgbaston Pool is located in West Midlands county
Birmingham
England
52°27′17″N 1°55′16″W / 52.4548°N 1.9211°W / 52.4548; -1.9211
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Edgbaston
Birmingham
England
West Midlands
Chad Brook
marsh
woodland
glacial
sands
gravels
Late Triassic
dam
weir
Winterbourne Botanic Garden
University of Birmingham
hooded crow
nightingale
nightjar
hawfinch
Edgbaston Hall
Birmingham Natural History Society
Natural England
Birmingham Natural History Society
Natural England

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