Beggarington

Beggarington, also known as Beggerington and Begerington[1][2] is a hamlet consisting of a few houses about 0.4 miles (0.6 km) north of Hartshead in Kirklees, West Yorkshire. It is situated in a bend of the B6119 road at the junction with the road from Roberttown. Beggerington has traditionally been considered a part of Hartshead.[1] The place name means either "where the berries grow"[3] or is related to beggar.[4]

This article is about the hamlet near Bradley, Kirklees. For the hamlet near West Ardsley, see Beggarington Hill.

Fields near Beggarington, with the houses of the hamlet to the left

A coal mine was recorded here in the 19th century as "Beggarington Pit, Hartshead".[5]

A waste water treatment works named Beggarington is located off Green Lane, a public bridleway.

References
  1. Armitage Goodall (1914). Place-names of South-west Yorkshire: That Is, of So Much of the West Riding as Lies South of the Aire from Keighley Onwards. Cambridge: University Press. p. 70.
  2. Albert Hugh Smith (1961). The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire: Lower & Upper Strafforth and Staincross wapentakes. Cambridge: University Press. p. 7.
  3. Malcolm Bull (19 April 2018). "The Calderdale Companion. B".
  4. Smith 1961, p. 156
  5. "Mines of coal and stratified deposits 1854 A - B". Northern Mine Research Society. Retrieved 20 April 2018.

53.7042°N 1.7216°W / 53.7042; -1.7216

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