Philip Saunders, Principal Archivist at Cambridgeshire Archives tells me:
“The Isleham Beggars’ Bush appears on a map of the estate of John Buller Esq of c.1787-1806 (Cambs Archives, 311/P1). It is on a byway in the former open fields, apparently east of the surviving road about half-way between Isleham and Chippenham, west of Freckenham (Suffolk), and is marked by a small tree in elevation. It is not so marked on the OS 1:2500 of the 1880s or 1901 (Cambs XXXVI.3) and appears to have disappeared as a name . . . Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 24th, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: Cambridge, Isleham, derog | No Comments »
By a Deed of Exchange dated 28 Nov 1679 Thomas Box acquired “land by the beggars bush, 1 land on long broome 1 eyes, other land on Thurnscoe Field east, 2 single lands on Carnaby field, all in Gt. Houghton”. The earliest entry used the definite article which suggests an actual bush, though it doesn’t prove anything about whether there was a beggar under under it. Read the rest of this entry »
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Richard Green says that it is a Green Lane, following Offa’s Dyke for a short while, but the name is not used by locals now. Ivan Moncton disputes this.
The site is about 1¼ miles from the Beggars Bush at Evenjobb, so are likely to be related. Read the rest of this entry »
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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 »
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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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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 »
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Referred to in 1609 in a Deed initially as “the long close near the way leading to Hatfield called the Beggars Bush Close or Hungerhill Close” and in 1615 as a “close of pasture in Wheatley or Doncaster (2a.) adjoining Wheatley Common and called Moreclose or Beggar Buske Close” and this name is used a reference point in two later deeds. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 23rd, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: Bentley, Lullington, West Yorkshire, Wheatley, derogatory | No Comments »
Wilshamstead is now commonly known as Wilstead. The earliest record is in a Release of a missing Lease for £9 dated 2 June 1655 between Francis Winton, gent., Rich. Doggett, yeoman, Thos. Doggett, cordwainer, & Ralph Doggett, tailor, to Rich. Ashwell, husbandman, all of Leighton Buzzard, of 6 acres in the Open Fields, including place-names: “Shenley Hill Field, Long Woe Furlong; Midle Field, Leick Fg., Coppspill, Hockliffe Way, Leick Brook, Leick Brooke Fg., and Beggers Bush”. Read the rest of this entry »
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The earliest record is a “Lease for 99 yrs., of land in the common fields, in Cossett field, in Hayfurlong; in Hayfield in a furlong between the Holloways, in Beggars Bush furlong; all in Urchfont”. Read the rest of this entry »
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An Assignment dated 25th September 1809 includes premises in Beggars Bush Fields and Chisenbury Hill (NA TS21/1259).
The name may be earlier. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 23rd, 2011 | Filed under: Places | Tags: Upavon, Wiltshire | No Comments »
