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

Ditchling, East Sussex Beggars Bush 1748

This may be an site where the origin of the place name is from the charitable purpose to which the land was put – the relief of beggary. It was a field owned by Sprott’s Charity, described as being 3a 1r 30p when sold by them in 1920, on the east side of a bridleway called Nye Lane, which was one of the ancient routes to the Downs, and close to the parish boundary between Ditchling and Westmeston.

Ditchling Parish, East Sussex, Vestry Minutes (ESRO ref. PAR308/12/1/2 pp 18-20) notes leases including “Beggars Bush to Daniel Hobden at 12s, 4 Nov 1748”, and (PAR308/24/1/2). Sprotts Charity Conveyance to new trustees dated 22 Dec 1781 includes “2: Church Croft, Marle Pit, the Noore otherwise part of Brookers, Milking Close, Alms Land and Beggars Bush, Ditchling, and Alms Land, Westmeston; Eastfield in Ditchling, copyhold of the manor of Ditchling Garden”. (ESRO AMS 6134/9, deeds, 1569-1927).

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Roma Leon, Ditchling History Project

Posted: March 19th, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: , , | 1 Comment »

One Comment on “Ditchling, East Sussex Beggars Bush 1748”

  1. 1: Edwina Rowling said at 4:06 pm on November 18th, 2014:

    Hi. am the current owner of Beggars Bush, Ditchling, East Sussex and have papers going back several decades for that land but interested to see a whole website for Beggars Bushes.

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