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.

A deed recording a sale of in 1622 includes “three sellious of land, coutaineing one acre and a half, in the west sid of a close in the feilds of Wheatley or Doncaster, nere to a place called Begger Bush, late in the possession of Thomas Clarke, and butting upon the highway leading from Doncaster to Hatfeild north, Shovelagate souih, and lyeth betwene the close of Robert Carlile west and George Elliott east.”

The records include a number of bush names, including Lousy Bush and Lowly Bush. At Lullington, Somerset Beggars Bush was also near Hungerhill; this may be derogatory, but may alternatively have an origin in OE Hungra for wooded hillside.

The Wheatley Muniments also include Beggar’s Bush in Bentley, West Yorkshire.

OS Grid

SE070260

Sources

Sheffield Archives, Cooke of Wheatley Muniments, Ref CWM
Feoffment CWM/395 1 Dec 1609
Marriage settlement CWM/111 23 Oct 1615
Thomas Mountney to Sir John Wadeson, 25th 1622, transcribed in
Nichols J. G., (ed) The Topographer and genealogist, Volume 3, London, 1857, p.515

Posted: April 23rd, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: Bentley, Lullington, West Yorkshire, Wheatley, derogatory | No Comments »