Beggars Bush Lane is adjacent to the canal, near Cassiobury Park, which was the home of the Earls of Essex from c.1800. It is possible to connect George Capel-Coningsby, the 5th Earl of Essex (1757-1839) who remodelled the house from 1799 with the revival of the play The Beggars Bush as The Merchant of Bruges in December 1815. Read the rest of this entry »
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 13, 1820 recorded:
“The Sparrows Herne Trust are making another very excellent improvement in their tine of road, by cutting through the steep chalk hill, at the London entrance of the town of Watford, so as to reduce the hill nearly one half. We are informed that it is the Earl of Bridgewater’s intention to cut an entire new line of road, so as to avoid the present dangerous entrance into the town of Tring, and also that it is in contemplation to lower Beggar Bush Hill, between Tring and Aston Clinton, which will most certainly be a great public benefit, as that hill in Its present state is dangerously steep.”
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