Stretham, Cambridge Beggers Bush Field 1639?

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

Sources

CRO Cambridge  P1 47/P2

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