Beggarington, also known as Beggerington and Begerington 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. The place name means either "where the berries grow" or is related to beggar.
A coal mine was recorded here in the 19th century as "Beggarington Pit, Hartshead".
A waste water treatment works named Beggarington is located off Green Lane, a public bridleway.
References
- ^ 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.
- Albert Hugh Smith (1961). The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire: Lower & Upper Strafforth and Staincross wapentakes. Cambridge: University Press. p. 7.
- Malcolm Bull (19 April 2018). "The Calderdale Companion. B".
- Smith 1961, p. 156
- "Mines of coal and stratified deposits 1854 A - B". Northern Mine Research Society. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
External links
- Yorkshire 232 (includes: Batley; Gomersal; Heckmondwike.) (Map). 1:10560. Ordnance Survey. 1854.
- Yorkshire CCXXXII.SW (includes: Cleckheaton; Gomersal; Heckmondwike; Liversedge; Mirfield.) (Map). 1:10560. Ordnance Survey. 1949.
53°42′15″N 1°43′18″W / 53.7042°N 1.7216°W / 53.7042; -1.7216
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