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

Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, Turkey Beggars Bush 1915

This is a very late and tragic example of the place name. The naming can be fixed to a very short period, responsibility for naming can be limited to a small group, and their situation at the time is known  It falls within the same general circumstances  as the other ‘frontier’ sites, but even more intense and dangerous. However, it may not arise from the literary usage but have it’s origins in another location.

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Posted: March 19th, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: , , , | No Comments »