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

Westbury-sub-Mendip Somerset Beggars Bush 1838

Westbury-sub-Mendip is a small village on the southern slopes of the Mendip Hills between Wells and Cheddar Gorge.

Bishop John of Tours may have enclosed an area of moor in the early 12th century later called Gooseland.

Source

Tithe Award, nos 234/253/255-6

Thanks

Phil Quinn

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