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

Batheaston, Somerset Beggars Bush ?

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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