Beggars Bush Lane is adjacent to the canal, near Cassiobury Park, which was the home of the Earls of Essex from c.1800. It is possible to connect George Capel-Coningsby, the 5th Earl of Essex (1757-1839) who remodelled the house from 1799 with the revival of the play The Beggars Bush as The Merchant of Bruges in December 1815. Read the rest of this entry »
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 13, 1820 recorded:
“The Sparrows Herne Trust are making another very excellent improvement in their tine of road, by cutting through the steep chalk hill, at the London entrance of the town of Watford, so as to reduce the hill nearly one half. We are informed that it is the Earl of Bridgewater’s intention to cut an entire new line of road, so as to avoid the present dangerous entrance into the town of Tring, and also that it is in contemplation to lower Beggar Bush Hill, between Tring and Aston Clinton, which will most certainly be a great public benefit, as that hill in Its present state is dangerously steep.”
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This is a curious record. Although there is a vey precise grid reference in a modern official document it doesn’t seem to relate to any current feature. However, the name, in English, can be traced back via the writings of a major figure in the Druidic and Welsh language revival. Read the rest of this entry »
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The site appears to be close to the junction of the A21 and A233 on the edge of Bromley Common. The area is consistent with the derogatory usage. There are local stories associating the location with highwaymen, and two elm trees, but they give the impression of being developments of the place name. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Will of Zachariah Shrapnel, Esq. made in 1794 includes a bequest of “all those scattered or dispersed Lands commonly called Beggars Bush , Little Field and Tyning, Prentite [?] Land, Baily’s Barn, figure [?] Winter Leaze and Raynard in Bradford and in adjoining Parishes and now in occupation of Thomas Harding, James Biggs and Farmer Crook [?] and some of those in my own occupation”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Although there is a record of this place name it is an error. It appears likely to be a mistranscription by the reporter, in Belfast, or mistake by the typesetter, in Cork (where there is a Beggars Bush). There is no other record of the name and that the entry is clearly an error for Friars Bush, a Catholic graveyard referred to elsewhere in the article. The fact that it happened is evidence that the phrase was known in Cork and common enough not to alert the user to the error. Read the rest of this entry »
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The field is a small part of Six Acres on the edge of Banner Down, one of the parish commons, on an exposed ridge.
Recorded as a “present name” for a field recorded in the 1840 Tithe Survey as Porters Bush (No.24). The chart refers to “other references 1755”, but that is presumably the older name, and no references are given. The earlier name is presumably personal, and if there is no record before the Tithe Survey this would be late example of the adoption of Beggars Bush. Read the rest of this entry »
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This site is recorded, so far as I can ascertain, only in a modern song referring to a local landmark. Although this site is close to the very early Beggars Bush at Philipstown, County Offally, it does not appear to have any connection with it. It may demonstrate the survival of the phrase is the region. Read the rest of this entry »
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This is a relatively late site in West Sussex where there are many early sites. It is one of several along what would have been the main road north to London, although the exact location is recorded variously. Read the rest of this entry »
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The name of one of the furlongs in the West Laine, consisting of six strips shown on a map and survey by William Figg, 1799, methodising an earlier one by Thomas Marchant. It is shown as being below Scabby Brow, immediately north of the lane leading off the main A27 south to Kingston village, which it crosses to become the ancient Juggs Way, an old route over the South Downs from Brighton to Lewes. The southern half of the field is now houses and gardens.
Richard Coates refers to this in his early article noting the existence of electronic resources for place name studies, ‘A new resource, Literature Online (LION) and some Sussex place-names with literary mentions’, Nomina, Vol 5, number 2, Autun Winter 2001, p.15.
OS Grid
TQ388087
Source
ESRO ADA 51
Thanks
Christopher Whittick, Margaret Thorburn, Janet Pennington
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