Glooston, Leicestershire Beggars Bush 1601

Beggers Bush 1601, 1634, 1700,

Beggars Bush 1738,

Beggars – Bush Furlong 1745

All recorded in terriers.

Field name. EPNS shows this east of Crossburrow Hill, in the centre of the triangle created by the Harborough Road, Church Hill Road and Langton Road.

EPNS says for the etymology:-

(v. beggere, busc; literally’ scrubland haunt of beggars’, a common f.n. which appears to denote poor, unproductive land)

Source

Survey of English Place-Names A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society

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