Location on north facing slope to east of a Windmill Hill, close to Kingstown Copse, near the hamlet of Tidpit, at South Eastern edge of Cranborne Chase. It is an isolated location, not close to any road. A Paradise is not far away.
Jim Champion
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A furlong in open fields. Now Commercial Road, Princes Street, Staunton Street, and All Saints Road.
J Chapman, The Common Lands of Portsea Island The Portsmouth Papers, No. 29 (Nov. 1978)
John Pile
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The name is listed in the Tithe Apportionment, along with other named coppices, forming part of Pamber Forest.
The current OS Map shows a Beggars Bridge Copse, at the northern end of the present forest, east of Tadley and north of an old Portway. This is consistent with the location of Beggars Bush Coppice within the survey and likely to be the same place.
The North Hampshire Tithe Map Project
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John Taylor, the Water Poet, in the dedication to his The Praise, Antiquity and Commodity of Beggary, Beggars & begging, etc. (1621) refers to “Beggars Bush, neere Andever, or to his Hawthorne brother within a mile of Huntingdon”. The second is clearly the Beggars Bush at Godmanchester, which is the most well known, probably through Saxton’s map. The first “neere Andever” is a mystery.
It must refer to Andover, Hampshire. However, I can trace no Beggars Bush site in or near Andover, nor can Hampshire Record Office. It may have been a name for a minor location only used briefly. There is at Andover a Coldharbour a similar derogatory place name often found near Beggars Bushes. East of that and on the south side of London Road is a Folly Copse and an area now named Round Bush Copse.
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