The story is set around Copthorne on the Surrey/Sussex border. The main character is the daughter of a farm labourer born in 1834. Her father works at a farm called Pickdick. She is sent as a child to scare birds in an oat-field on nearby Beggars Bush farm where she sees a vision and becomes a preacher for the Colgate Brethren. It appears the Colgate Brethren meet at another farm called Horn Reed. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 25th, 2011 | Filed under: Writers | Tags: Literary, Sheila Kaye-'Smith, Sussex | No Comments »
Beggars Bush Farm was an isolated farm near the village of Grewelthorpe in the Parish of Kirkby Malzeard, West Yorkshire, about 8 miles from Ripon. It is an example where there is a documented alternate simple Bush name, which survives. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 25th, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: Grewelthorpe, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire | 1 Comment »
On current OS Map east of the village on Higham Road, at a junction. Recorded on the Tithe Survey (33/176) at TL730652. Suffolk XLIII.5 Old Series OS shows the road as having trees along on side. Read the rest of this entry »
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Beggars Bush House is now at 53 Haddington Road, EU21 7SZ, and all references appear to be to a house. The location of that is close to the boundary between Edinburgh & Haddingtonshire. An entry in the Edinburgh & Leith County Directory 1842 gives Andrew Elley, gardener at Beggars Bush. The name is not shown on the 1854 or 1898 OS Maps or Wm. Roy’s Military Survey of Scotland 1747-55. The name is referred to in The East Lothian (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1998, Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 2804 (S. 164) defining the boundary of Ward 5 Musselburgh East. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 25th, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: East Lothian, Scotland, Thomas Trotter | 3 Comments »
Rocque’s Survey of Dublin (1760) shows Begarsbush over three fields running north-south west of the lane south from the Lucan to Palmerston road (now the N4). The site roughly corresponds with what is now Ballyowen Park. It is opposite the gate house to the park marked Hermitage, and an area marked Woodville. Taylor’s Map of Dublin (1816) shows Beggars Bush running west-east across the same lane, and appears to show the area as being a small hill. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 25th, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: Donnybrook, Dublin, Dublin Lucan, Ireland | No Comments »
This site is now Beggars Bush Kennels, Spithandle Lane, Wiston, Steyning, BN44 3DY. The owner says the house is part C16, set in 12 acres of good grassland and 1 acre of woodland. The lane is shown at Geograph.
West Sussex Record Office, Wiston Archives contain a number of references. WSRO notes the importance of the Wiston Archives in part because they provide a record for the area between Storrington and Steyning, at both of which there are Beggars Bushes. Read the rest of this entry »
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“if a man be a tree invers’d, he’s beggar’s bush”
The usage is clearly literary, and consistent with standard literary usage. However, the form is unusual. The concept goes back to Aristotle History of Animals, “Man is an inverted tree, and a tree is an inverted man”. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 24th, 2011 | Filed under: Writers | Tags: Cambridge, John Cleveland, Literary | No Comments »
The poem is from a collection Sea Weeds: Poems Written on Various Occasions, Chiefly During a Naval Life published for Thomas Trotter (1760-1830) who at that time was a surgeon practicing in Newcastle. The text says no more about the “maniac” who is supposed to have cut it down. Read the rest of this entry »
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Beggars Bush Lane is adjacent to the canal, near Cassiobury Park, which was the home of the Earls of Essex from c.1800. It is possible to connect George Capel-Coningsby, the 5th Earl of Essex (1757-1839) who remodelled the house from 1799 with the revival of the play The Beggars Bush as The Merchant of Bruges in December 1815. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 24th, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: Drayton Beauchamp, Hertfordshire, The Play, Watford | No Comments »
The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 13, 1820 recorded:
“The Sparrows Herne Trust are making another very excellent improvement in their tine of road, by cutting through the steep chalk hill, at the London entrance of the town of Watford, so as to reduce the hill nearly one half. We are informed that it is the Earl of Bridgewater’s intention to cut an entire new line of road, so as to avoid the present dangerous entrance into the town of Tring, and also that it is in contemplation to lower Beggar Bush Hill, between Tring and Aston Clinton, which will most certainly be a great public benefit, as that hill in Its present state is dangerously steep.”
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Posted: April 24th, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: Buckinghamshire, Drayton Beauchamp, Watford | No Comments »
