This is a curious record. Although there is a vey precise grid reference in a modern official document it doesn’t seem to relate to any current feature. However, the name, in English, can be traced back via the writings of a major figure in the Druidic and Welsh language revival. Read the rest of this entry »
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The site appears to be close to the junction of the A21 and A233 on the edge of Bromley Common. The area is consistent with the derogatory usage. There are local stories associating the location with highwaymen, and two elm trees, but they give the impression of being developments of the place name. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Will of Zachariah Shrapnel, Esq. made in 1794 includes a bequest of “all those scattered or dispersed Lands commonly called Beggars Bush , Little Field and Tyning, Prentite [?] Land, Baily’s Barn, figure [?] Winter Leaze and Raynard in Bradford and in adjoining Parishes and now in occupation of Thomas Harding, James Biggs and Farmer Crook [?] and some of those in my own occupation”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Although there is a record of this place name it is an error. It appears likely to be a mistranscription by the reporter, in Belfast, or mistake by the typesetter, in Cork (where there is a Beggars Bush). There is no other record of the name and that the entry is clearly an error for Friars Bush, a Catholic graveyard referred to elsewhere in the article. The fact that it happened is evidence that the phrase was known in Cork and common enough not to alert the user to the error. Read the rest of this entry »
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The field is a small part of Six Acres on the edge of Banner Down, one of the parish commons, on an exposed ridge.
Recorded as a “present name” for a field recorded in the 1840 Tithe Survey as Porters Bush (No.24). The chart refers to “other references 1755”, but that is presumably the older name, and no references are given. The earlier name is presumably personal, and if there is no record before the Tithe Survey this would be late example of the adoption of Beggars Bush. Read the rest of this entry »
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This site is recorded, so far as I can ascertain, only in a modern song referring to a local landmark. Although this site is close to the very early Beggars Bush at Philipstown, County Offally, it does not appear to have any connection with it. It may demonstrate the survival of the phrase is the region. Read the rest of this entry »
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This is a relatively late site in West Sussex where there are many early sites. It is one of several along what would have been the main road north to London, although the exact location is recorded variously. Read the rest of this entry »
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The name of one of the furlongs in the West Laine, consisting of six strips shown on a map and survey by William Figg, 1799, methodising an earlier one by Thomas Marchant. It is shown as being below Scabby Brow, immediately north of the lane leading off the main A27 south to Kingston village, which it crosses to become the ancient Juggs Way, an old route over the South Downs from Brighton to Lewes. The southern half of the field is now houses and gardens.
Richard Coates refers to this in his early article noting the existence of electronic resources for place name studies, ‘A new resource, Literature Online (LION) and some Sussex place-names with literary mentions’, Nomina, Vol 5, number 2, Autun Winter 2001, p.15.
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Christopher Whittick, Margaret Thorburn, Janet Pennington
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Philip Saunders, Principal Archivist at Cambridgeshire Archives tells me:
“The Isleham Beggars’ Bush appears on a map of the estate of John Buller Esq of c.1787-1806 (Cambs Archives, 311/P1). It is on a byway in the former open fields, apparently east of the surviving road about half-way between Isleham and Chippenham, west of Freckenham (Suffolk), and is marked by a small tree in elevation. It is not so marked on the OS 1:2500 of the 1880s or 1901 (Cambs XXXVI.3) and appears to have disappeared as a name . . . Read the rest of this entry »
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By a Deed of Exchange dated 28 Nov 1679 Thomas Box acquired “land by the beggars bush, 1 land on long broome 1 eyes, other land on Thurnscoe Field east, 2 single lands on Carnaby field, all in Gt. Houghton”. The earliest entry used the definite article which suggests an actual bush, though it doesn’t prove anything about whether there was a beggar under under it. Read the rest of this entry »
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