Wiktionary
n. A wood largely populated with birch trees.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 269
Land area (2000): 1.126839 sq. miles (2.918499 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.158103 sq. miles (0.409485 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.284942 sq. miles (3.327984 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07550
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 45.657262 N, 91.554367 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 54817
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Birchwood
Wikipedia
Birchwood is a civil parish in north east Warrington, Cheshire, England with a population of 11,395 (as at the 2001 census). Historically part of Lancashire, it was built during the time of much expansion in Warrington as it became a " new town". Birchwood is separated into three residential estates: Gorse Covert (grid ref SJ665925, population 2,790), Oakwood (grid ref SJ656914, population 4,381) and Locking Stumps (grid ref SJ645918, population 2,759), with all the main facilities grouped around the centre.
Birchwood is a civil parish in the north-eastern part of Warrington, England.
Birchwood may also refer to:
- the Birch tree and its wood
- the 1973 novel by John Banville
Birchwood is a log house reconstructed in 1936 using logs from an earlier structure built in about 1836. The first log house on the site was an even earlier structure built by Caleb Birch in approximately 1800 that burned down.
Richard Wallace, valet to Rear Admiral Presley M. Rixey, lived here, and received President Theodore Roosevelt as a visitor.
Birchwood has been recognized as a Historic District by Arlington County, USA.
Usage examples of "birchwood".
One of these Frank kept positioned exactly facing the massive speakers of his elaborate hi-fi system, its working parts concealed inside a birchwood Biedermeier tallboy that had been disembowelled to accommodate it.
In the twenty-first century, when I hope Russia will be a sweeter country than it is just now, Gorki will be but a name in a textbook, but Chekhov will live as long as there are birchwoods and sunsets and the urge to write.
Eight Young Octobrists from Pskov, three boys and five girls ranging in age from eight to ten, and three clerical employees, all men who worked directly for the Politburo, were laid out in polished birchwood coffins, surrounded by a sea of flowers.
The soft autumn colors of the birchwoods had been blotted out by the bleak whiteness of the snow.
In two fireplaces near either end, despite the spring warmth, small blazes of birchwood crackled.
Long straight hair the color of birchwood, gathered in a knot at the side of her head.
Small wooden cups were placed along the table cloth, and a birchwood ewer stood at the far end.
And she took a white box of pink-coloured cigarettes from a little golden birchwood table.
You know the kind of place our shop is: a regular Fifth Avenue store, all plate glass front and marble columns glowing in the indirect lighting like a birchwood at full moon.
Farther on he stopped to say hello to the constable, who was devoted to him and held out his birchwood snuffbox.