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Bilberry Hill is one of the Lickey Hills in northern Worcestershire, England, 10.3 miles (16.5 kilometres) south west of Birmingham and 24 miles (38.5 kilometres) north east of Worcester. It stands above and to the west of the village of Cofton Hackett, and is part of the Lickey Hills Country Park. The three hilltops comprising The Lickeys - Bilberry Hill, Rednal Hill and Cofton Hill - form the northern extremity of the Lickey Ridge, a formation of hard quartzite. Views over Birmingham and the surrounding countryside can be seen from the top of these hills. The hill is named after the tracts of Bilberry (''Vaccinium myrtillus'') bushes that cover the hill, between the pathways. Local people have been cropping the bushes of their fruit each autumn for hundreds of years to make jams, preserves or apple and bilberry pies. ==History== In 1888 the ''Birmingham Society for the Preservation of Open Spaces'' purchased Rednal Hill and handed it to the City in trust. In 1913 they also arranged for Bilberry Hill and Pinfold Wood to be leased to the city on a nominal peppercorn rent in perpetuity. Birmingham City Council finally purchased Cofton Hill, Lickey Warren and Pinfield Wood outright in 1920. With the eventual purchase of the Rose Hill Estate from the Cadbury family in 1923, free public access was finally restored to the entire hills with what would become the Lickey Hills Country Park in 1971. The ''Bilberry Hill Centre'' is a hostel and sports facility run by ''Birmingham Clubs for Young People'' nestling at the base of Bilberry Hill, in a building that was donated to the people of Birmingam by Mr and Mrs Barrow Cadbury in 1904 as the Lickey Tea Rooms and remained in use as a restaurant until the early 1960s. The hostel can accommodate up to 65 persons.〔(Bilberry Hill Centre )〕 In the winter of 2008 the centre is under threat of imminent closure over funding issues and there is an internet campaign to save the facility for future use by young people.〔(Save the Bilbury Hill Centre )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bilberry Hill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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