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

Evercreech, Somerset Beggars Bush 1778

A Lease and Release between Richard Henry Alexander Benet of St. James’s, Middlesex (1) and Thomas Coward of Spargrove (2) includes Beggars Bush (3.0.18), Pike Hill (0.2.5), Quarr closes (1.2.22, 9.0.39) and one horse common in Southwood in Stony Stratton, Evercreech. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted: April 24th, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: , , , | No Comments »


Castle Cary, Somerset Beggars Bush 1839

A draft chapter for VCH says “Smallway Lane, recorded in the later 17th  century,  cut off the junction of the two roads from Sparkford and continued across country to Wincanton. It was sufficiently well used to support a beerhouse after 1839 on land called Beggars Bush”. Read the rest of this entry »

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Bruton, Somerset Beggars Bush 1785

The earliest date is from deeds “relating to land including Beggar’s Bush or Hutchew’s Paddock and Hill Close, between Carter’s and Trendell Lane, . . . in the manor and parish of Bruton”. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted: April 23rd, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: , , | No Comments »