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Respond to: Website researching the placename Beggars Bush
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Andy B
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|  New Message Posted!2011-04-04 01:09
Beggars Bush: A Perambulation through the Disciplines of History, Geography, Archaeology, Literature, Philology, Natural History, Botany, Biography & Beggary
Over the last three or four years I have been promising to put my research online. I have finally managed that and invite you to visit http://www.beggarsbush.org.uk
All the Beggars Bush placename sites I have found are listed in the Gazetteer – more than 120 so far. This includes the location, county/country, OS map reference, and the date of the first record of the name. You can search the Gazetteer for any site that interests you.
For now I will say I don’t believe there were any real beggars under the bushes and that the case for that is made from the earliest examples of the usage of the phrase and the “frontier” sites, which you can find on the website.
Neil Howlett
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