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

Wheatley, West Yorkshire Beggars Bush Close 1609

Referred to in 1609 in a Deed initially as “the long close near the way leading to Hatfield called the Beggars Bush Close or Hungerhill Close” and in 1615 as a “close of pasture in Wheatley or Doncaster (2a.) adjoining Wheatley Common and called Moreclose or Beggar Buske Close” and this name is used a reference point in two later deeds. Read the rest of this entry »

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Bentley, West Yorkshire Beggars Bush 1821

Referred to in Deeds as “3a. near Beggar’s Bush in Amersall Field” (1821). A map of Amersall and other fields dated 1735 showed them divided into smaller units. These open fields were not enclosed until after 1827. Read the rest of this entry »

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