Lindow Common is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) on the western edge of the town of Wilmslow, Cheshire, in the northwest of England.[1][2] It is also designated a Local Nature Reserve.[3][4]
The Common was an area of heathland where, in centuries past, villagers could graze their cattle, but over the last century or so, birch trees have overrun many areas, so that much of the Common is covered by trees.
In the middle of Lindow Common lies the Black Lake. The Welsh for Black Lake is llyn ddu, the derivation of Lindow. The name Lindow is also used for one of the historic parishes of Wilmslow, and of the adjacent Lindow Moss, much of which is covered in an ancient peat bog. It was at Lindow Moss that a bog body, Lindow Man, was discovered in 1984. Lindow Man is now on display at the British Museum.
Lindow Common was managed by Macclesfield Borough Council's Countryside and Ranger Service.[5] The common is now managed by Cheshire East Council.
Current work at Lindow Common is aiming to start selective removal of birch trees, in order to promote regrowth of heather (Calluna vulgaris) to return the area to heathland. This is one of only two sites in Cheshire with areas of lowland wet heath.
A racecourse once existed around the outskirts of the Common. The racecourse is no longer there, but the road around the perimeter is called Racecourse Road.
The Common features (under its Welsh name Llyn-dhu) in Alan Garner's popular children's fantasy novel The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.[6]
^"Lindow Common citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
^"Map of Lindow Common". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
^"Lindow Common". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
^"Map of Lindow Common". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Archived from the original on 24 March 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
^Macclesfield Borough Council's Countryside and Ranger Service. "News from Lindow". Archived from the original on 18 January 2007. Retrieved 23 August 2006.
^Garner, Alan (1960). "Mist over Lynn-dhu". The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley. Collins.
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greedy, gluttonous, audacious" and Old High German freh "greedy". John Lindow interprets both Old Norse names as nominalized adjectives. Bruce Lincoln...
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& Lindow 2020b: 1331. Andrén 2020: 212. Chadwick 1907:267—268, 289 and Davidson 1964:113. Chambers 2001: 69-71. See for example discussion in Lindow 2020:...
practice. John Lindow relates Odin's ability to send his "thought" (Huginn) and "mind" (Muninn) to the trance-state journey of shamans. Lindow says the Grímnismál...
to refer to the world tree Yggdrasil, and the spring Mímisbrunnr. John Lindow concurs that Mímameiðr may be another name for Yggdrasil and that if the...
compounds (byggja sifjar means "to marry"). Using this etymology, scholar John Lindow gives the meanings "in-law-relationship", scholar Andy Orchard provides...
to the same chapter, Lindow comments that neither of the phrases that Fenrir's binding result in have left any other traces. Lindow compares Fenrir's role...
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