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

Bentley, West Yorkshire Beggars Bush 1821

Referred to in Deeds as “3a. near Beggar’s Bush in Amersall Field” (1821). A map of Amersall and other fields dated 1735 showed them divided into smaller units. These open fields were not enclosed until after 1827.

OS Grid

SE565056

Sources

Sheffield Archives, Cooke of Wheatley Muniments, Ref CWM
Lease and release (copy)  CWM/715 [Watermark 1821]

Burns, Margaret L. P., Burghwallis and Bentley; A Comparative Study of two South Yorkshire parishes, unpublished MA Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1996

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