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

Wardington, Oxfordshire Beggar Bush ?

Beggarall and Beggars Banks in the same parish.

Source

JP Field, J., English Field-Names; A Dictionary, Newton Abbott, 1993, p.17

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Charlbury, Oxfordshire Beggars Bush ?

Charlbury is a village north west of Oxford.

Source

Field, J., English Field-Names; A Dictionary, Newton Abbott, 1993, p.17

 

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Charlbury, Oxfordshire Beggars Bush ?

Charlbury is a village north west of Oxford.

Source

Field, J., English Field-Names; A Dictionary, Newton Abbott, 1993, p.17

 

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Wroxton, Oxfordshire Beggars Bush Furlong ?

This name is given in John Field’s English Field-Names; A Dictionary, Newton Abbott, 1993, p.18.

There is also a Beggar Hill in Wroxton.

OS Grid

SP410410

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Benson, Oxfordshire Beggarsbush Hill 1606

EPNS Oxfordshire, p.118, gives Beggers Busshe and Beggars Bushe from a Survey of 1606/7 in PRO. It is a lane leading from Nuffield to Benson, forming part of the old road from Henley via Wallingford to Oxford, now redirected around the RAF airfield. It runs about 1 mile south of Ewelme, and about 1 mile north of Coldharbour Farm, near which is a Starveall. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted: April 10th, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: , , | 3 Comments »


Mollington, Oxfordshire Beggars Bush 1617

Warwickshire Record Office Papers from the Holbech family of Farnborough has a Mortgage of property in Mollington (CR0457/59/4) dated 10 October 1617 including “a messuage and property known as Beggars Bush in Mollington”.

The same property is also referred to in other documents the last of which is 1 May 1743 (CR0457/55/7).
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Posted: March 13th, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: , , | No Comments »