Westbury-sub-Mendip is a small village on the southern slopes of the Mendip Hills between Wells and Cheddar Gorge.
Bishop John of Tours may have enclosed an area of moor in the early 12th century later called Gooseland.
Tithe Award, nos 234/253/255-6
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Weston is a village about 2 miles north east of Spalding, in South Holland.
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West Harptree is a small village in the Chew Valley, Somerset on the edge of the Mendip Hills.
Tithe Award 1993, no305
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Now pasture land in part of the old Open Field area of Upper Weare.
Tithe Award, no.294.
Michael Costen
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Beggarall and Beggars Banks in the same parish.
JP Field, J., English Field-Names; A Dictionary, Newton Abbott, 1993, p.17
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Ballyvicarye (1569) (Irish, Baile an Bhiocáire) is recorded consistently from 1602 as Vicarstown, with some variation in spelling, but the record for 1837 gives “Vicarston al’ Beggar’s Bush”.
See also Philipstown, County Offally, although there is no obvious connection.
There is also a Beggarstown (Irish, Baile na mBacach) in County Offaly.
Placenames Database of Ireland
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Location on north facing slope to east of a Windmill Hill, close to Kingstown Copse, near the hamlet of Tidpit, at South Eastern edge of Cranborne Chase. It is an isolated location, not close to any road. A Paradise is not far away.
Jim Champion
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Rye, W, An index to Norfolk topography, (London, 1881, p.23) gives “Beggars Bush, near Stow Breckles” but no more.
This must be a location near Stow and Beckles heaths. It is possible that this is linked to the Poor’s Allotment and Poor’s Piece.
Thompson, Norfolk is a small parish and village near Watton, located amongst woodland. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tithe Survey:
Plot Number 15, in the Parish of Stretton Baskerville, Coventry Diocese
5 Acres, 0 Roods, 17 Perches
State of Cultivation, Arable
Landowner John Huskisson
Occupier William Powers
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The OS Map and an aerial photograph forming part of an ecological assessment shows Beggars Bush Field as on the south side of the lane leading from A10 (Cambridge to Ely) south of Stretham towards Red Hill Farm. Also recorded on an undated parish map.
EPNS, Cambridge, p.238 gives Begger(s)-field, 1606, 1639.
For an example of the standard romantic explanation for Beggars Bush place names, see, Harper, C. G., The Cambridge, Ely and King’s Lynn road, the great Fenland highway, Chapman Hall, London (1902) p.251
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