Birkhill and neighbouring Muirhead are two small villages in
Angus
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* Angus, New South Wales
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Scotland
* Angu ...
, just to the west of
Dundee,
Scotland
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.
Community features
Features of Muirhead and Birkhill include:
*A branch of the
Co-op
*A small hill known to locals as The Roundie
*Birkhill Primary School, built in 1993 and later extended (the extension officially opened by
Andrew Welsh MSP in 2002). Most students go to ''
Monifieth High School
Monifieth High School, a comprehensive state high school in Monifieth, Angus, Scotland, was founded in 1976. It was opened by Lord Thomson of Monifieth. The school enrolls approximately 1100 pupils from a catchment area including Monifieth, part ...
'' for secondary education, with the school providing buses for the journey to
Monifieth. The school has about 300 pupils and around 17-18 teachers. Scottish footballer
Craig Brewster attended the older Muirhead Primary School which has now been converted into several houses.
*Sports facilities, including a football pitch, a tennis court and a bowling club
*The Birkhill Inn, a small restaurant and pub often called the "Birkie Inn"
*The Millennium Hall, which hosts clubs and events
*Birkhill is located next to Templeton Woods, home to one of the largest populations of red squirrels in the UK
Muirhead
In Muirhead there is:
*a
convenience store called ''Adil's''
*a
chemist
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*a
doctor's surgery
*a
post office
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*a
Scout
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**Scouts (The Scout Association), section for 10-14 year olds in the United Kingdom
** Scouts BSA, sect ...
Hall, home to the ''46th Angus Scouts'' which is available for rent and is currently well utilised
*a small
laundrette.
*a
stables and riding school
*two
nursery school
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s, called ''Birkhill Nursery School'' and ''Tiddlywinks Nursery School''.
*a large area of
woodland
A woodland () is, in the broad sense, land covered with trees, or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the '' plurale tantum'' woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (see ...
known as ''Backmuir Wood'' or ''5 Mile Wood''
*a Motor Mechanics
*a Church
* The Muirhead and Birkhill Millennium Hall which has over 25 different groups using it. Their website can be found at www.muirheadbirkhillmilleniumhall.org.uk
Sports
The Birkhill FC is an Amateur Sunday League Football team that play in the Dundee Sunday Morning Amateur Football Association. They play their home games at Birkie Park.
References
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Villages in Angus, Scotland