Rudbaxton, Pembrokeshire Beggers-bush 1822
The name appears in lists of places compiled from the 1891 and 1901 censuses.
Rudbaxton (pron. “ribeston”) is a parish just north of Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire, east of the Haverfordwest to Fishguard road. The late nineteenth century OS Maps show a hamlet consisting of St Michael’s Church church and a few buildings which seem to form one farm. No precise location is given. Near are place names such as Folly, Lands End, Cold Blow, Thornbush, Furzy Mount and Withybush. The population of the parish fell by third from 1844 to 1929. The soil is described as “rabby”.
Prof. A. W. F. Edwards, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (personal communication) tells me that his great-grandfather Titus Phillips was born in 1835 in his parents’ house at Beggar’s Bush in Pembrokeshire, 3 miles NE of Haverfordwest. Grid ref. 982196. 1841 census. The Farm of Newton West and Beggars Bush, containing 163 acres of thereabouts, was advertised in the Pembrokeshire Herald and General Advertiser of 6th August 1880.
Richard Morgan (personal communication) tells me that G. Charles, The Place-names of Pembrokeshire (2 vols. NLW 1992), p.438, cites Beggers-bush 1822 and interprets it as ‘a bush under which a beggar finds shelter, fig. beggary, ruin’ drawing on NE (s.v. beggar). He also points out that Pembrokeshire also has a lost Beggarsland, which Charles (p.527) says may be near Long Wood, Minwear, and had a Beggars Wood which he suggests is Long Wood itself.
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Thanks
Richard Morgan
A. W. F. Edwards
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