Beggars Bush Farm
This 1775 map of the Grewelthorpe area shows where Beggars Bush farm was.
The farm was mentioned in a 1915 directory. See the item “directories” on the community page.
Neil Howlett has been researching the Beggars Bush name and he sends the following comments.
Most Beggars Bush place names come from a phrase common in the Elizabethan period “to go by beggars bush” meaning to fall on hard times often through ones own folly. He thinks it was distributed by literature, particularly a play of that name by Beaumont & Fletcher was very popular until the 19th century and performed at fairs and other informal locations.
Another route for distribution was a prominent hill of that name on the 1576 map of Huntingdonshire by Saxton which was reproduced for over 200 years.
The place name is less common in the North. It seems to be associated with marginal land, and commonly changes.
In many places such as the Huntingdonshire example it is connected with a change to a Kings name.