Beggars Bush: A Perambulation through the Disciplines of History, Geography, Archaeology, Literature, Philology, Natural History, Botany, Biography & Beggary

Ashcombe, Devon Beggars Bush 1830

Between A380 Ashcombe, and A38 Chudleigh, north of Newton Abbott, at the SW corner of Haldon Forest.  Described at Geograph as “a notoriously dangerous bend on the northbound carriageway of the Newton-Exeter road, this is now a junction of country lanes at the end of Haldon Forest”. The photograph shows a wooded area.

Quarter Sessions Records of new Roads and old highways intended to be made turnpike roads, includes for Teignmouth and Dawlish Trust “Ashcombe Church to Beggars Bush on Haldon” (, ref. QS/DP/92 (1830)). There is also a record in 1849 of an assault by a carriage driver on “Sarah Gilley, toll collector at the Beggars Bush Toll Gate on the Exeter Turnpike Road” (Devon Record Office refs.3009A-99/PO11/315 and 3009A-99/PO12/384-385).

OS Grid

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Source

OS Gazetteer

 

Posted: May 8th, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: , , | 1 Comment »

One Comment on “Ashcombe, Devon Beggars Bush 1830”

  1. 1: Karen cornett said at 6:13 am on July 7th, 2016:

    Hi, who owes beggars bush, ashcombe please?

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