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Whitemoor Haye

area in Staffordshire, England, UK

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 17, 2024
Entity authorityQ7996171 ↗
Source-derived summary

Whitemoor Haye (grid reference SK1813) is a mainly agricultural area in the floodplain of the River Tame, near Alrewas in Staffordshire, England.

It is very popular with birdwatchers, as several rare species are either resident or seasonal visitors, notably the corn bunting.

The remains of several woolly rhinoceroses were recovered from a quarry here in 2002.

There is an airfield, for light aircraft such as microlights.

Editorial summary

“Whitemoor Haye” enters the record as area in Staffordshire, England, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Whitemoor, Haye and area can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Whitemoor, Haye and area.
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Why this record matters

“Whitemoor Haye” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Whitemoor, Haye and area provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 17, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7996171. Authority coordinates are 52.714, -1.735. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Whitemoor Haye” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.