While depletion of woodland could have caused a cultural shift from burning timber to peat, potentially the name arose because the sequestration of the common or allodial rights of the islanders by Einarr forced them away from coppicing towards cutting turves.
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Working-class families from the central Birmingham slums that were being demolished and a considerable number of Irish immigrant families settled in the new homes on the newly built council estates around Cofton Common and the land between it and Turves Green.
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A long zig-zagging wall of peat turves and packed sand had apparently been constructed beforehand : concentrations of battle debris in front of it and a dearth behind it testify to the Romans'inability to breach the Germans'strong defense.
34.
The only farmer recorded to be living in Turves Green in the late nineteenth century censuses was Thomas Morris, born in 1865, but in 1907 he was mentioned in Kelly's Directory as either living at Longbridge or Staple Old Road.
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The Birmingham and Worcester turnpike road which is now the Bristol Road ( A38 ) and the Northfield to Wootton Wawen turnpike road which runs southwards down Church Hill, past Turves Green and West Heath until it joins the Alvechurch Road ( A441 ).
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Whilst the landed gentry were well represented with the Commissioners, the ordinary commoners who used and depended on the common land were concerned that they would lose all rights and would have nowhere for their animals and nowhere from which to collect wood and turves.
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Youngsters at Turves Green Boys'Technology College in Birmingham are being offered weekly after-hours lessons in Sindarin, a conversational form of Elvish invented by " Lord of the Rings " creator J . R . R . Tolkien and based on Welsh sounds.
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Turves Green once contained nine residential towers, several blocks of low-rise flats, and an estate of pre-fabricated bungalows and brick semi-detached pairs, known as the Austin Village, that was built in 1916 to house First World War munitions workers.
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The relief road involved widening a part of an existing road Bell Lane, a new by pass was also built and named, " Sir Herbert Austin Way " in recognition of Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin who started producing cars at the Longbridge plant and built Austin Village in the Northfield part of Turves Green.
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It consisted of one burial chamber constructed of large upright slabs, capped by two lintel slabs, forming a chamber of 15 feet ( 4.5 metres ) long, 3 feet ( 0.9 metres ) wide and 3 feet ( 0.9 metres ) high, covered by a huge mound of stones and turves.
