The site is shown on a Map of Manor of Sompting Abbotts dated 1772 (WSRO Add Ms 2015) where later maps show buildings.
It survives as Beggars Bush Kennels and site of a car park on the Sompting Abbotts to Steyning Road near Steep Down. The Annington Beggars Bush is about two miles north east.
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Posted: April 10th, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: Annington, Sompting, West Sussex | No Comments »
A terrier dated 30 March 1528 of the manor of Annington in Botolphs, lists under “Buttells Dene. The Furlonge called Quochman otherwyse Beggers busch to begyn at the north syde under Hendersch and soe to goe southe to beggers bush.” It is possible the name is older as the document states “this terror is a copie of an old Terror and wryten verbatim with that terror” (WSRO, Wiston Ms. 5163). It is recorded again in 1635 “…in Buttles Deane in the furlong call[e]d Quochmans furlong al[i]as Beggers Bush abutting upon the Land of Edward Hyde…”’(WSRO, EP1/25/3). I am not aware of any later records.
The precise location cannot be found but it is in the Adur valley, and could well be on the parish boundary between Botolphs and Coombes. The Beggars Bush at Sompting is about two miles to the south west, up Winding Bottom towards Steep Down.
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Posted: March 13th, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: Annington, Sompting, Sussex, derogatory, proverb | No Comments »
