Right opposite the school was the osier bed. We dare not go in.

Far down an osier bed covered the stream and hid it from our sight.

Once the train spark set fire to the osier beds opposite the school and we were sent across to beat out the flames.

Willow for making baskets was grown in osier beds, and hops were also cultivated.

In front of us lay a dark pool, still as death and fringed with long grass and osier beds.

An Osier Bed and flood meadows adjoin the site, but these are not part of the nature reserve.

In the valley bottoms there are osier beds, once used by the villagers to make their crab and lobster pots.

Tide flows over osier beds.

Turtle dove, reed bunting and sedge warbler breed in the adjoining Osier bed.

The great area of land south of Lord Burlington Lane, down to the river bank, was meadowland with osier beds at the water front.

This could well be true, as several osier beds were discovered in parts of the village, such as Bumpstead Hall and Drapers Green.

An Osier bed is where historically willows were planted and coppiced to produce withies which were used for basket making, fish-traps, and other purposes.

Draper's Osier Bed Stream is a small stream in southern England, in the county of Berkshire.

Pavenham Osier Beds is a 1.3 hectare nature reserve managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

The village is "T shaped", the lower half of the settlement (Lower Street) follows the B1066 along the bottom of the valley past the old Stanstead osier beds.

The northern boundary with Theale and the Southcote area of Reading is formed by the Holy Brook and the Draper's Osier Bed Stream.

In 1878 the company bought the disused Swan Garden Iron Works in Wolverhampton, and two years later acquired the neighbouring Osier Beds Iron Works.

The brook starts its early life with two spring fed fish ponds on nearby Burghfield Common, then wends its way through and around osier beds where, in days gone by, canes were cut for basket making.

The nest is well-concealed and built close to the ground in such places as grass tussocks, gorse bushes, osier beds, reed beds, tangled hedgerows, scrub and among coarse heather plants on moorland.

OSIERS (WILLOWS) Osier Beds are traditionally planted in wetland areas of Britain and are grown for their annual crop of 10'0" long straight stems.

John Lysaght purchased the Swan Garden ironworks of Wolverhampton in 1878 and William then became its manager, and he also managed the Osier Bed ironworks after that was purchased in 1885.

They met her on the plank bridge that crossed the stream by which the osier beds were nourished, and Ellen liked her before they had come within hailing distance because she was such a little nosegay of an old lady.

In the north of the parish, the Kennet River valley, is surrounded by a number of man made lakes, marshland and willow scrub, with old water meadows and Osier beds to the north of the river.

A 24-hectare area of lakes, wetland, ancient grass meadow and woodland, it occupies a part of the site of a large former country estate, Pendeford Hall, which possessed an osier bed and watermill, and dated to the 13th century.

In 1838, at the time of construction of the London and Southampton Railway, the area was described as "a low swampy district occasionally overflowed by the Thames [whose] osier beds, pollards and windmille and the river give it a Dutch effect".