Thompson, Norfolk Beggars Bush 1881
Rye, W, An index to Norfolk topography, (London, 1881, p.23) gives “Beggars Bush, near Stow Breckles” but no more.
This must be a location near Stow and Beckles heaths. It is possible that this is linked to the Poor’s Allotment and Poor’s Piece.
Thompson, Norfolk is a small parish and village near Watton, located amongst woodland.
The church was once used by the College of Thompson. A fourteenth-century seal of this college bears St. Martin dividing his cloak with the beggar, but this is probably unrelated to the name, as the College was suppressed in 1541.
The name Thompson is believed to have Danish origins; it appears in the Domesday as Tomesteda and Tomestuna.
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