Birkhill, Angus

<h2 id="community-features">Community features</h2>
<p>Features of Muirhead and Birkhill include:
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<ul><li>A branch of Asda Express (one of the first Asda Express shops in the UK)</li>
<li>A small hill known to locals as The Roundie</li>
<li>Birkhill Primary School, built in 1993 and later extended (the extension officially opened by <a href="/facts/Andrew_Welsh_(politician)/GHNMjlDp">Andrew Welsh MSP</a> in 2002). Most students go to <i><a href="/facts/Monifieth_High_School/zJ6jclb7">Monifieth High School</a></i> for secondary education, with the school providing buses for the journey to <a href="/facts/Monifieth/CdKogyrC">Monifieth</a>. Scottish footballer <a href="/facts/Craig_Brewster/4otHqAt1">Craig Brewster</a> attended the older Muirhead Primary School which has now been converted into several houses.</li>
<li>Sports facilities, including a football pitch, a tennis court and a bowling club</li>
<li>The Birkhill Inn, a small restaurant and pub often called the "Birkie Inn"</li>
<li>The Millennium Hall, which hosts clubs and events</li>
<li>Birkhill is located next to Templeton Woods, home to one of the largest populations of red squirrels in the UK</li></ul>
<h2 id="muirhead">Muirhead</h2>
<p>In Muirhead there is:
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<ul><li>a <a href="/facts/Convenience_store/LpWjFLqc">convenience store</a> called <i>Adil's</i></li>
<li>a <a href="/facts/Dispensing_chemist/YakY9Lk9">chemist</a></li>
<li>a <a href="/facts/General_practitioner/nTnFHcBA">doctor's</a> surgery</li>
<li>a <a href="/facts/Post_office/f8jr8z0E">post office</a></li>
<li>a <a href="/facts/Scouting/BwE4ELxX">Scout</a> Hall, home to the <i>46th Angus Scouts</i> which is available for rent and is currently well utilised</li>
<li>a small <a href="/facts/Laundrette/cAo1IH6F">laundrette</a>.</li>
<li>a <a href="/facts/Stable/sbnGo0E7">stables</a> and riding school</li>
<li>two <a href="/facts/Nursery_school/lmg7JkcL">nursery schools</a>, called <i>Birkhill Nursery School</i> and <i>Tiddlywinks Nursery School</i>.</li>
<li>a large area of <a href="/facts/Woodland/BcnoNfmp">woodland</a> known as <i>Backmuir Wood</i> or <i>5 Mile Wood</i></li>
<li>a Motor Mechanics</li>
<li>a Church</li>
<li>The Muirhead and Birkhill Millennium Hall which has over 25 different groups using it.  Their website can be found at www.muirheadbirkhillmilleniumhall.org.uk</li></ul>
<h2 id="sports">Sports</h2>
<p>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.
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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Dundee and Montrose, Forfar and Arbroath", Ordnance Survey Landranger Map (B2 ed.), 2007, ISBN 0319229807 <a href="0319229807" target="_blank">0319229807</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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