Isleham, Cambridgeshire Beggars Bush 1806

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 »

Posted: April 24th, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: Cambridge, Isleham, derog | No Comments »