User:Rajsirocco/draft update for bakloh

History
Bakloh, northeast of Gurdaspur District, Punjab, on the borders of Chamba State, height above sea level, 4584. Population in 1881, 1479, comprising 1300 Hindus, 13 Sikhs, 154 Muhammadans, and 12 others.In 1874, there no  telegraph, and the  called 4the ‘Goorkhas’  was listed as ‘native infantry’  in the Imperial gazaetteer. acquired to establish a  ‘gurkha cantonment’   in 1866,   for a rebate of few thousand rupees  from annual tribute   that the Raja paid.

flora and fauna
Bukloh, a spur dense  with of ‘chil’, longleaf pine forests,  and deodar cedar was   [ Himalayan cedar, or deodar; Sanskrit, Hindi: cedar native to the western Himalayas (Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, occurring at 1,500–3,200 m (4,921–10,499 ft) altitude. It is a large evergreen coniferous tree reaching 40–50 m (131–164 ft) tall, exceptionally 60 m (197 ft) with a trunk up to 3 m (10 ft) in diameter. The leaves are needle-like, mostly 2.5–5 cm long, occasionally up to 7 cm long, slender (1 mm thick), borne singly on long shoots, and in dense clusters of 20-30 on short shoots; they vary from bright green to glaucous blue-green in colour. The female cones are barrel-shaped, 7–13 cm long and 5–9 cm broad, and disintegrate when mature (in 12 months) to release the winged seeds. The male cones are 4–6 cm long, and shed their pollen in autumn.

layout
In the centre of the spur is a small Anglican church, called the Oswald church. On either side of the  Oswald Church are  a set of near identical  Bungalows,  Barracks, bazaar, sheds for MT training areas,  and temple. The north  barrack, and bazaar area,  the  living area of  troops,  since  2/4 since its raising in 1886., is called 2/4 lines. South of the church, the area,  which was home and depot to ¼ gr,   is called ¼ lines, or tytler lines,  in memory of the first commandant of the ¼ GR. The officers bunglows, and messes, offices, are on top of the spur, surrounded by hegde rows and flower beds.