Referred to in Deeds as “3a. near Beggar’s Bush in Amersall Field” (1821). A map of Amersall and other fields dated 1735 showed them divided into smaller units. These open fields were not enclosed until after 1827. Read the rest of this entry »
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Marked on a map prepared for Mr Gay showing the northern half of Bath before the development of the Royal, Lansdowne or Camden Crescents. Fields are marked with personal names or field names, and numbers. Beggars Bush is marked 73 and is on the northern boundary with Charlcombe Parish. It is the next field above the junction between what is now Lansdowne Road and Beacon Hill Road. Most of the neighbouring fields have personal names. Read the rest of this entry »
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Now Beggars Bush Barn, Buckhurst Lane, Wadhurst, West Sussex, TN6 6JU. The site is north of the road between Mark Cross and Wadhurst.
It is first shown on the Greenwood & Greenwoods’ Map of c.1825 just north of Skinner’s Farm. The name appears to denote two buildings at a fork in the road to Buckhurst. Barrow’s Bush is shown at the same location on the 1″ to 1 mile map by Gardner & Gream, (based in part on a survey by Gardener & Yeakell in 1778). Nothing is shown on the earlier 1741 map of the area. It is therefore possible that Beggars Bush replaced an earlier name, perhaps from a person. If so it may indicate the popularity of the name, but is not probative of anything more. Read the rest of this entry »
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Messingham is a hamlet south of Scunthorpe. An entry in a Glebe Terrier for the parish dated 18th October 1686 records a holding of “Two gad in Beggars Bush furlong” in the West Field. A gad is a measure of grassland equal to a swathe, or about 2 metres.
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A Release dated 2 June 1655 includes “in the Open Fields. Place-names: Shenley Hill Field, Long Woe Furlong; Midle Field, Leick Fg., Coppspill, Hockliffe Way, Leick Brook, Leick Brooke Fg. Beggars Bush” (Bedfordshire & Luton Archives and Record Service, Properties in Leighton Buzzard purchased by members of Ashwell family ref. BC63). Read the rest of this entry »
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VCH Middlesex, (vol.v) says that The Beggar’s Bush fairs to be held on Ascension Day and St Giles’s Day were founded at Southgate in 1614, when the site formed part of Enfield Chase, but were held at at the top of Clay Hill in 1771, before being restored to Southgate. There ere earlier fairs dating back to a grant in 1303.
John Walker’s The Universal Gazetteer (London 1798) lists two Beggars Bushes, one the Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire site, the other described as being in Middlesex “ten miles from London” – which fits Enfield. It is possible that the Beggars Bush name from Godmanchester transferred to an earlier Bush Fair at Enfield.
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OS Map shows Beggars Bush Cottage set back off the B3440 Uffculme to Willands Road. About 1 miles north east at Uffcolme are Coldharbour, Bridewell, and No Man’s Land. Read the rest of this entry »
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Anon, A Gazetteer of Dorset Place-Names (Dorset Environmental Records Centre, 1998, p.14) gives Beggars Bush Lane at ST584141. It also has Beggars Bush Lane Quarry at ST584153. EPNS Dorset (vol.3, p.205) has the same name and a Beggars Bush field name.
There is no lane on the OS map which follows a obvious route between these reference points; the southern end is just south of the centre of the village and the northern end is south of the A30 leaving Yeovil at Babylon Hill/Tilly’s Hill.
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EPNS Oxfordshire, p.118, gives Beggers Busshe and Beggars Bushe from a Survey of 1606/7 in PRO. It is a lane leading from Nuffield to Benson, forming part of the old road from Henley via Wallingford to Oxford, now redirected around the RAF airfield. It runs about 1 mile south of Ewelme, and about 1 mile north of Coldharbour Farm, near which is a Starveall. Read the rest of this entry »
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Recorded by C. Howkins, Trees and People in Surrey and Beyond, Addlestone, 1999, p.37; Sy Arch Coll 49, p.37.
Also T.E.C. Walker (SAC Vol.XLIX p.114) says that the Kerry MSS at Derby Public Library (Vol.III,p.108) records that this referred to a grass triangle at the top of the road from Puttenham village to the Hog’s Back, on the boundary of Puttenham & Wanborough, and that when it was grubbed up in about 1840 a human skeleton was found beneath the roots.
The location now appears to be below the access road to the A31.
Beggars Corner nearby is a distinct location.
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